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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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