Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
ALEXANDER POPETo swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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