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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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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
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
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Oneself Romantic World
The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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God People Voice
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Friendship Guide One Liner Philosophy Yourself
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Honesty Lie Lying Motivation Protection Worst
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
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Act Character Honor Lying One Liner
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Acceptance Forget Love Mindset Remember Sunshine
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Forever Hope Men Spring
Passions are the gales of life.
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Life One Liner Passion
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Growth Lose Performance Reality Yourself
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Education Fools Learning People Reason Time Understand
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Deep Education Learning Spring Wisdom
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Children Education Learning One Liner Song
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Happiness Thinking
A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Age Fools One Liner Patriot
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Deep Human Life River Wisdom
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
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Angry Hate Ourselves Revenge Spiritual
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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Failure Fools Judgement Men Mindset Pride Strong Vice
Never find fault with the absent.
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Absence Mistake One Liner
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Ability Generousity Man Wisdom
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Age One Liner Youth
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Appearance Beautiful Hairs
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Advice Deep Growth One Liner Tree Wisdom
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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Best Character Deep Injury People

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