An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPEThe only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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