A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE
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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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