Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEAll seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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