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"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left."
"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosen't, then it was never meant to be." - N/A
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
"We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings."
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
“To err is human, to forgive divine.” (Alexander Pope)
- An Essay on Criticism (1711) Part II, Line 325
The title of the work this is contained in carries the word “Essay,” it is in fact a poem that represents the literary ideals of Pope’s time. It also nearly expressly addresses other writers rather than the standard “reader.”
“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” (Alexander Pope)
- An Essay on Criticism (1711) Part III Line 66
The title of the work this is contained in carries the word “Essay,” it is in fact a poem that represents the literary ideals of Pope’s time. It also nearly expressly addresses other writers rather than the standard “reader.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” (Alexander Pope)
- An Essay on Criticism (1711)
From a poem by Pope, it continues “There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.” Pope was probably speaking here of the dangers of pride in what we think we have been educated on, and how dangerous not knowing enough about a subject can be.