Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEOf 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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