A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPEThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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This long disease, my life.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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