Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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