What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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