Every professional was once an amateur.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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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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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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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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