As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPEThis long disease, my life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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