As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPESleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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