Truth needs not flowers of speech.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat will a child learn sooner than a song?
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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.
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