Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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