A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
ALEXANDER POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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 only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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