A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPEAmusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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