Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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 little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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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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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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