In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
ALEXANDER POPEAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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This long disease, my life.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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