O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEEvery professional was once an amateur.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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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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