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.
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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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