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- Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
- Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism, 1711
- Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Essay on Criticism
- 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 (1688 - 1744)
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- 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 (1688 - 1744)
- To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism
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