Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEHe 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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