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Alexander Pope Quote - If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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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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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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