O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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