Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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 patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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