Quote by Alexander Pope
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of man

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man. – Alexander Pope

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. – Alexander Pope

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

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For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best. – Alexander Pope

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We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. – Joyce Cary

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Ive always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so Im just being who God made me to be. – Joel Osteen

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille

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When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group. – Shirin Ebadi

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. – Bernard Meltzer

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