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 POPEWhen 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 POPEThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
ALEXANDER POPELulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
ALEXANDER POPEAll seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPETo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPEMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPEDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
ALEXANDER POPEAnd seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEFools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPEIt often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
ALEXANDER POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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