Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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