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 who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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