Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPETo err is human; to forgive, divine.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Great 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.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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