Alexander Pope Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Time Quotes

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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No creature smarts so little as a fool.

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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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