As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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