Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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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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