The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
ALEXANDER POPEThe only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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