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Alexander Pope quotes about pain

English Poet May 21, 1688 – May 30, 1744

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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. Alexander Pope
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)-Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1. Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope quote: "You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of..."
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope quote: "While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves,..."
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope quote: "Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in..."
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. Alexander Pope
Then most our trouble still when most admired, And still the more we give, the more required; Whose fame with pains we guard, but lose with ease, Sure some to vex, but never all to please. Alexander Pope

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