Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPEThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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This long disease, my life.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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