What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
ALEXANDER POPEBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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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 swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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