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.
ALEXANDER POPEHope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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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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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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