He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPEMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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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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