True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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