Quote #31

For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

More from Alexander Pope

  1. Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
  2. There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,-live in peace,-adieu.
  3. Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
  4. Who dared to love their country, and be poor.
  5. The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.
  6. Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled! They had no poet, and are…
  7. Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long Absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: Absence does but hold…
  8. Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

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