All Alexander Pope Quotes
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
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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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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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