Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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