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 POPEThe people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The laughers are a majority.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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