Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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