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 POPESome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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The laughers are a majority.
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