Occupation: Poet Birth: May 21, 1688 Death: May 30, 1744
Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own.
With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads backā¦.
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest..
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them..
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring..
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread..
Truth needs not flowers of speech..
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone..
Act well your part, there all the honour lies..
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me..
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..
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon..
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..
To err is human; to forgive, divine..
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own..
All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven..
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole..
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves..
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think..
There is a majesty in simplicity..