On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Quote by Alexander Pope

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women...

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women...

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe...

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe...

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women...

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women...

Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful...

Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful...

True, conscious honor is to feel no sin, he's armed without that's innocent within; be...

True, conscious honor is to feel no sin, he's armed without that's innocent within; be...

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one...

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one...

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but...

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but...

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements...

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements...

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the...

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but...

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but...

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the...

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the...

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price...

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price...