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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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Hide Inspirational Oneself Ourselves Rise Thinking
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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This long disease, my life.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Burn Deserve Hope Myself Poetry Praise
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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Company Friendship Learning Men Myself
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Nature Strange Thinking Vice
Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Justice Law Love One Liner Right
There is a majesty in simplicity.
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One Liner Simplicity
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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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God Life Man Misfortune Myself Perfection Religious
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Education Knowledge Learning
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Feeling Mistake See Wisdom
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Age One Liner Youth
Never find fault with the absent.
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Absence Mistake One Liner

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