What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
ALEXANDER POPEAmusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A 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.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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