True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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