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.
ALEXANDER POPEWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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