Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
ALEXANDER POPEWho dare to love their country, and be poor.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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