You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEGet 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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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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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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