True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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