On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEIt often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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 is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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