As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPEMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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This long disease, my life.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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