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.

Quote by Alexander Pope

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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the...

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the...

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer...

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer...

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to...

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to...

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I...

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I...

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find in all the world, much less in...

'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find in all the world, much less in...

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

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

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore, full well they merit all they feel, and more

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore, full well they merit all they feel, and more

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in...

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in...

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

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

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is...

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is...