Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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 people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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