The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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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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