Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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A little learning is a dangerous 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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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