As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPEWho dare to love their country, and be poor.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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 some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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