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May Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
- When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old,…
- A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
- We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
- [T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?…
- Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course,…
- Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
- Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare