Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is a majesty in simplicity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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