A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPEVice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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