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 POPETis but a part we see, and not a whole.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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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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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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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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