Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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 only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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