A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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