What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
ALEXANDER POPEGet 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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