O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEFor what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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This long disease, my life.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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