What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
ALEXANDER POPEYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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It 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.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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