The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
ALEXANDER POPESome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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