Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
ALEXANDER POPEThe most positive men are the most credulous.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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