Alexander Pope Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Eye Quotes

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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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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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

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