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The Quotable Alexander Pope

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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.

Alexander Pope Quote
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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’T is education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Alexander Pope Quote
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest.

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Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you’ll forget them all.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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She who ne’er answers till a husband cools, Or if she rules him, never shows she rules.

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