A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPEThe world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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 Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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