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.
ALEXANDER POPEThe most positive men are the most credulous.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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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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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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.
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