Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPEGreat oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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