We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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