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.
ALEXANDER POPEStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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