Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat will a child learn sooner than a song?
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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