As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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