To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPEEvery professional was once an amateur.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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