O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEThis long disease, my life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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