True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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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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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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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The laughers are a majority.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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