Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
ALEXANDER POPEThe world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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