An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPETrue wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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