To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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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 people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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