Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPEAn obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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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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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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