The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPETo err is human; to forgive, divine.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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There 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.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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He 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.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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