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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
— Alexander Pope Moral Essays
Tags: poetry

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long 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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
— Alexander Pope
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