What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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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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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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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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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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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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