A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
ALEXANDER POPEExpression is the dress of thought.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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