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 POPETrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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