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 POPEWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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