Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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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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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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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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