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 POPESleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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