Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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A 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.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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