And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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 faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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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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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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