On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPETruth needs not flowers of speech.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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A little learning is a dangerous 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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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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