What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
ALEXANDER POPETo swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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This long disease, my life.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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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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