What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
ALEXANDER POPESleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The laughers are a majority.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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