Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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