Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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