You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEThou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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