A Quote by Alexander Pope

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

Alexander Pope

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About Another Constant Fall Keep Tis Vain Vice

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Alexander Pope
English - Poet
May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

Horace

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

Georgette Heyer

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

A. E. Housman

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

Alphonse de Lamartine

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

William Shakespeare

Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

Philip James Bailey

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.

Michel de Montaigne

Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing.

Nell Scovell

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Phaedrus

The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.

Stevie Jackson

Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.