Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPEThe only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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