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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE

Hold Opinion Person
Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE

Absence Mistake 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.
ALEXANDER POPE

Fortune Herself Honesty Independence Lose Worst
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Deep Peace War
Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Justice Law Love One Liner Right
There is a majesty in simplicity.
ALEXANDER POPE

One Liner Simplicity
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPE

Nature Strange Thinking Vice
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.
ALEXANDER POPE

Force Greatness Himself Invention Lying Oneeslf
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Expression Nature True
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPE

Angry Hate Ourselves Revenge Spiritual
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
ALEXANDER POPE

Deep Human Life River Wisdom
Passions are the gales of life.
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Life One Liner Passion
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Education Learning Mindset Motivational Strength
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Enemy Friendship Lost Ourselves Praise
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Blessing Disappoint Expectation Men
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
ALEXANDER POPE

Beautiful Improvement Nature

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