Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
ALEXANDER POPE
ALEXANDER POPE
Alexander Pope on education
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope 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.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Truth needs not flowers of speech.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope This long disease, my life.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope The most positive men are the most credulous.
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