The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
ALEXANDER POPEMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Vice 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.
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