Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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