The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
More from Alexander Pope
They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.
Permalink to quote #10 Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Permalink to quote #12 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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