Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPEThe vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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The laughers are a majority.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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