Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPEAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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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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