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 POPEHope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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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 patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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