All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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