What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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