Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Quote by Alexander Pope
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Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Alexander Pope Quotes
- A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- To err is human; to forgive, divine.
- Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
- Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
- Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
- He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
- Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
- Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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