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 POPEPraise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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