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 POPEIf, 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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