As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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