In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The laughers are a majority.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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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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