To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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