This long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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