The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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