Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEMany men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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