Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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