Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
ALEXANDER POPEThe people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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