What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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