Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Passions are the gales of life.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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