A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPEThe laughers are a majority.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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This long disease, my life.
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