I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
ALEXANDER POPEThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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