Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPEThe vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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