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.
ALEXANDER POPEOf all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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