You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEThe only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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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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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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