Every professional was once an amateur.
ALEXANDER POPEAmusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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