Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPESome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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