Im not clear on what he says but its about life. Please Help
2007-01-22 16:20:32 · 2 answers · asked by DV 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
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.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
An honest man is the noblest work of God.
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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.
Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
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;
"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.
An essay on Criticism
To err is human, to forgive divine.
An Essay on Criticism
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Essay on Criticism
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
2007-01-22 18:06:38 · answer #1 · answered by The Answer Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
2007-01-23 00:55:22 · answer #2 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋