An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Passions are the gales of life.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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