Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPEAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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