He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPEPraise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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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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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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