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.
ALEXANDER POPESleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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