Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEAmusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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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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