On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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