This long disease, my life.
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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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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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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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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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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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