To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPEI never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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This long disease, my life.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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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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