Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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