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 POPESome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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