Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPEExpression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPEAct well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPEA youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
ALEXANDER POPETruth needs not flowers of speech.
ALEXANDER POPEThe people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPEIf, 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.
ALEXANDER POPELearning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEOn life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEIn faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat will a child learn sooner than a song?
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPESome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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