O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEThou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Passions are the gales of life.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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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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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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