Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
ALEXANDER POPEHope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Never find fault with the absent.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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