Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPEMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPEThis long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPETo be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPELulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
ALEXANDER POPEAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEThe world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
ALEXANDER POPEGreat oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
ALEXANDER POPEVice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
ALEXANDER POPETrue wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPEEvery professional was once an amateur.
ALEXANDER POPETo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPEOf 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.
ALEXANDER POPEWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
ALEXANDER POPEThe only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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