Every professional was once an amateur.
ALEXANDER POPEEvery professional was once an amateur.
ALEXANDER POPEPraise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPETo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPEThe world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
ALEXANDER POPEMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPEVices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
ALEXANDER POPEThou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
ALEXANDER POPEIn faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
ALEXANDER POPE