There is a majesty in simplicity.
ALEXANDER POPEA 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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