What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
ALEXANDER POPEMany men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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