On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEA youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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