Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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