Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEHope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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