Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPEGet 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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