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 POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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