The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
ALEXANDER POPEFor 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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