Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPETo swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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