On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPESleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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