You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEEve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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The laughers are a majority.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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