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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Myself Parents Poet Sin Writing
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Attitude Brave Character Deep One Liner Polite Wisdom
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Art Literature Nature One Liner
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Deserve Men Myself Oneself Safety
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Angry Hate Ourselves Revenge Spiritual
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Anxiety Food Health Sick
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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Character Failure Goodness Humor Power Trust
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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Comfortable Employment Growth Live Old Young
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Appearance Beautiful Character Soul Win
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Greatness Man Person World
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Funny Life Ocean Passion Reason
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Death Joy Live Pain Yourself
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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Best Character Deep Injury People
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Expression Nature True
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Divine Government Right Wrong
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Nature Strange Thinking Vice

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