Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPELove the offender, yet detest the offense.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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