What will a child learn sooner than a song?
ALEXANDER POPEBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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The laughers are a majority.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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