What will a child learn sooner than a song?
ALEXANDER POPEDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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