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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.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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