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.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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