On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat will a child learn sooner than a song?
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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