A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
ALEXANDER POPEWho dare to love their country, and be poor.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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This long disease, my life.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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 who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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