This long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPEAmusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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 who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Get 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.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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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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