The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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What 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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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 most positive men are the most credulous.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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