An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPEStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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