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 POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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The laughers are a majority.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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