We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
ALEXANDER POPEYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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