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 POPEEvery professional was once an amateur.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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This long disease, my life.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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