Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPEEvery professional was once an amateur.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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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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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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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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