The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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