Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPEDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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