What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
ALEXANDER POPEThe laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPESleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
ALEXANDER POPEEvery professional was once an amateur.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
ALEXANDER POPELearning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEOn life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPEStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
ALEXANDER POPETo be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
ALEXANDER POPEAll seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEThis long disease, my life.
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