To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Tag: Alexander Pope
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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.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
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.
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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.