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Great Quotes by Alexander Pope
- At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
- Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he…
- Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all…
- 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…
- Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
- 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…
- That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in…
- I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
- Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course,…
- The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through…
- 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…
- The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord…
- Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies…
- At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense
- At every trifle take offence, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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