In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPETo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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