As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
ALEXANDER POPEThou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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It 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.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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