A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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