Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
ALEXANDER POPE
ALEXANDER POPE
Alexander Pope on feeling
Alexander Pope88 quotes“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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Alexander PopeAlexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Alexander PopeAlexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Truth needs not flowers of speech.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope This long disease, my life.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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