Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPEBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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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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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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