Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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