To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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!
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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