The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
ALEXANDER POPEWhen 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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It 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.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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