Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEThe laughers are a majority.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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This long disease, my life.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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