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.
ALEXANDER POPEIn faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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