A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPENo 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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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.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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