Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
ALEXANDER POPEI never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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The laughers are a majority.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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