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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope

An honest man is the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Alexander Pope

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Alexander Pope

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

Alexander Pope

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope

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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Alexander Pope

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;

Alexander Pope, "Eloisa to Abelard"

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Alexander Pope, Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727

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