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.
ALEXANDER POPEThe laughers are a majority.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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