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 POPETis but a part we see, and not a whole.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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