Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
ALEXANDER POPEO peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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