You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPELove the offender, yet detest the offense.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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