Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
ALEXANDER POPEWhen 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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