Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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