You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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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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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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