On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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