This long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPEIn this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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