Passions are the gales of life.
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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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