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 POPETruth needs not flowers of speech.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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