The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
ALEXANDER POPEWe may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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