What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat will a child learn sooner than a song?
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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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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