You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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