A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPECharm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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