The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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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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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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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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