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 POPEThere is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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