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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Knowledge Leaving Word Writing
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Education Knowledge Learning
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Angel Fear Fools One Liner Rush Wisdom
Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Forget Men Wisdom
There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Attitude Man Positive Success
Every professional was once an amateur.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner Professional
The laughers are a majority.
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Laughter One Liner
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Fortune Herself Honesty Independence Lose Worst
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Art Genius Heart Soul Wake Up
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Age One Liner Youth
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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Comfortable Employment Growth Live Old Young
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.
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Lose Love Play Relationship Women
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Expression Nature True
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Best Brother God Himself Service

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