Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPEFools rush in where angels fear to tread.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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