Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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