Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.


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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.
ALEXANDER POPE
Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.
ALEXANDER POPE
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know,
Make use of every friend—and every foe.
A ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense!
ALEXANDER POPE
None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE
Beware of the friend who was once your foe.
PROVERB
Trust yourself. Make sure your mistakes are your own, not somebody else’s.
JEFFREY FRY
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT
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JOHN F. KENNEDY
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.’
James 1:17
If your vision in life...
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ETTA SAWYERR
Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you k...
SUN TZU
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you k...
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burde...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Be yourself .Be courageous & bold.Strive to make every moment beautiful to make your day worth meani...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
What we lack in Prophets, however, we make up for in Saints. Only a Pope may canonize a Saint, but e...
KERRY THORNLEY
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE
That was much worse than expected, and the underlying numbers look weak across the board.
MICHAEL EVERY
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The moderation is certainly very slow in arriving, even allowing for the usual lag in data, and thes...
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Redwood, in my opinion, was one of the smartest fishermen around and a scientific fishermen.
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Tom Joiner was the dock master. He would book people to fish over on the boardwalk.
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I played bad this afternoon. I don't even want to talk about the morning right now. I putted badly. ...
MATT EVERY
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SARA BAREILLES
You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they lo...
C. JOYBELL C.
You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or f...
PATRICIA FRIPP
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PATRICIA FRIPP
Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's ma...
RASHEED OGUNLARU
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
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OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI
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AMIT RAY
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER
Every one has a defects, so we accept in our life the one who "can" be identified with his advantage...
AHMED SAID
I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into y...
TAHEREH MAFI
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
ADELE BROOKMAN
Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the wh...
SALMAN KHURSHID
In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battle...
EMILY THORNE
Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
WIEDER MARCIA
Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
MARCIA WIEDER
Being Yourself” means aligning your beliefs, words and actions. Be yourself, accept yourself, valu...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
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OREN ARNOLD
Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")
Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?
BRIAN JACQUES
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
OPRAH WINFREY
If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.
C.S. LEWIS
Therefore, as always, make of this voice what you choose to make of it. Make of me what you choose t...
JANE ROBERTS
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE
A foe is New York's Governor Pataki of every child, animal and tree Iraqi.
O ANNA NIEMUS
You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.
CARL WHITE
Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AESCHYLUS
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend
AESCHYLUS
Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stra...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter bec...
SAADI
Make optimum use of every second that passes daily
SUNDAY ADELAJA
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JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY
Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be bra...
N.D. JONES
Every day use your magic to be of service to others.
MARCIA WIEDER
When you take the time to really know yourself—know your values, know your beliefs, know what is i...
SURAJ DAHAL
It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your f...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER
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OREN ARNOLD
Trust In Every Words,
And You Will Believe In Your Works.
EIZZA ZAIZALNIZAM
Demons don't understand human hearts, not well. They see through a distorted glass and show you what...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Your spouse is not a possession you attain, but a friend in which you trust & adore.
ROBERT VANLEEUWEN
Every poet who aspires to celebrity strives to approach the perfection of Pope and the sweetness of ...
DAVID HUMPHREYS
Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yoursel...
MARIO ANDRETTI
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourse...
MARIO ANDRETTI
Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact
WILLIAM FEATHER
Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
CHARLES CHURCHILL
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AESCHYLUS
As entrepreneurs, we already know our most valuable asset is time, but not every entrepreneur knows ...
LEWIS HOWES
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
JACKIE CHAN
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce...
ROBERT COLLIER
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce...
ROBERT COLLIER
The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
STEVEN GROVER CLEVELAND
There is no bigger dream than to have your best friend at work with you every day playing your best ...
HEATHER GRAHAM
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
GROVER CLEVELAND
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust
GROVER CLEVELAND
Bound yourself by nothing, make sure you provide yourself with every capability of being limitless.....
N. S. COLE
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
RICHARD BACH

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
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In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
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Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
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Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
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Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
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No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
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One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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ALEXANDER POPE
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE
Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
ALEXANDER POPE
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE
What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
ALEXANDER POPE
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
ALEXANDER POPE
Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
ALEXANDER POPE
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE
The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
ALEXANDER POPE
I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
ALEXANDER POPE
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
ALEXANDER POPE
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where o...
ALEXANDER POPE
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
ALEXANDER POPE
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
ALEXANDER POPE
Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on othe...
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