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Alexander Pope Quote - Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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