Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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