To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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