Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander PopeRead
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
Interpretation
Serving others brings one closer to divinity.
This quote by Alexander Pope emphasizes the importance of selfless service to others, suggesting that those who dedicate themselves to helping their fellow human beings attain a higher spiritual connection. It reflects the idea that true devotion and moral worth are achieved through the acts of kindness and service we offer to others in our lives.
In practice
In a speech on community service, one might say, 'As Alexander Pope remarked, he who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.'
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;_x000D_ _x000D_ Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.
It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.
I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.
It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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