A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPEVices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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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.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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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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