Alexander Pope Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Firsts Quotes

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

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Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

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The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

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In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

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Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

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I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

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Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

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Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

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First of all, you never retire. At least I don't retire.

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Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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