On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Quote by Alexander Pope

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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...

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and...

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and...

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe...

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe...

Charms strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

Charms strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a...

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a...

Never find fault with the absent.

Never find fault with the absent.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor...

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor...

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Passions are the gales of life.

Passions are the gales of life.

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...

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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...

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like...

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like...