Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEGreat 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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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.
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