You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEWho dare to love their country, and be poor.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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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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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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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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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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