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.
ALEXANDER POPEMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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This long disease, my life.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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