As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
ALEXANDER POPEEvery professional was once an amateur.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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