In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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