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.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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This long disease, my life.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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