To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPEMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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