Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well To bear too tender, or too firm a heart To act a lover's or a Roman's part Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die.Alexander Pope
Beware of all, but most beware of Man!
Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
Unhappy Wit, like most mistaken Things,
Attones not for that Envy which it brings.
Alexander Pope
Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
Alexander Pope
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Alexander Pope
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