We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
ALEXANDER POPETis but a part we see, and not a whole.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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