The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
ALEXANDER POPEAnd seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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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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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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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.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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