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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.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope 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.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Expression is the dress of thought.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope The laughers are a majority.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope 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.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope
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