The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
ALEXANDER POPEAn obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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