You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEA youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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