Every professional was once an amateur.
ALEXANDER POPEAn obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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