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.
ALEXANDER POPEAmusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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This long disease, my life.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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