The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
ALEXANDER POPEVice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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