Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
ALEXANDER POPEYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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