Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPEAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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