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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Alexander Pope


How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Alexander Pope


So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope


But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Alexander Pope


Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Alexander Pope


Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope


The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Alexander Pope


Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Alexander Pope


A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

Alexander Pope


Passions are the gales of life.

Alexander Pope