You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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