In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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