Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEAll seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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