He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPEThis long disease, my life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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