As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
ALEXANDER POPEPraise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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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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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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This long disease, my life.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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