To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPEIt 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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