Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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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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