He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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For 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.
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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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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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