Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
ALEXANDER POPEBeauty draws us with a single hair.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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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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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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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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