Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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