Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEThe laughers are a majority.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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