Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPEWomen 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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When 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.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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The laughers are a majority.
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