In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
ALEXANDER POPEThe only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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