You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is a majesty in simplicity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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