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.
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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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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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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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