Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPEWomen 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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