He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPEEve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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