Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
Alexander PopeShe who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
Alexander PopeOur passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope