Beauty draws us with a single hair.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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