Every professional was once an amateur.
ALEXANDER POPEAn obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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The laughers are a majority.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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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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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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