Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPETo swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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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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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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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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