As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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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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