The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.- Alexander Pope
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Passions are the gales of life.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Order is heaven's first law.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
