Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPEThou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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