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 POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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