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 POPEPassions are the gales of life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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