All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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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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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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