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 POPEA youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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