Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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