You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPETrue wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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 greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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