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 POPEEvery professional was once an amateur.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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