In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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