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.
ALEXANDER POPEAct well your part, there all the honour lies.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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