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 POPELulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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There 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.
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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 people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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