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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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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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