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.
ALEXANDER POPEWhen we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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The laughers are a majority.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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