This long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPEFools rush in where angels fear to tread.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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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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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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