A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat will a child learn sooner than a song?
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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