All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPETis but a part we see, and not a whole.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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 Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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