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.
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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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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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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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