Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPESome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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