An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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