Alexander Pope

(28 votes)   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.

Alexander Pope
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(22 votes)   Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.

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1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(16 votes)   All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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(303 votes)   Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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(286 votes)   We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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(283 votes)   Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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(232 votes)   At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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(220 votes)   Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

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(177 votes)   Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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(156 votes)   By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

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(140 votes)   Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.

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(135 votes)   You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

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(134 votes)   Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

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(130 votes)   To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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(127 votes)   True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

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