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.
ALEXANDER POPEGreat oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Vice 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.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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This long disease, my life.
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