You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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