On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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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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