The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
ALEXANDER POPETo err is human; to forgive, divine.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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This long disease, my life.
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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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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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