Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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