What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
ALEXANDER POPEPhysicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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