True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
ALEXANDER POPELearning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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This long disease, my life.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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