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| A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Fools admire, but men of sense approve. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Men would be angels, angels would be gods. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
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| The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
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| I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smiled; if right, I kissed the rod. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
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| An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| To err is human, to forgive is divine. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
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| At every word a reputation dies. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Health consists with temperance alone. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| An honest man's the noblest work of God. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Act well your part; there all honour lies. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| 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. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
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