Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEWe may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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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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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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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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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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This long disease, my life.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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