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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more


Alexander Pope

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DEYTH BANGER To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT He who says he is happy in the desert means he knows where the well is.
VIKRANT PARSAI If someone says, "the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative’",...
DADA BHAGWAN He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIèRE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool
MOLIERE Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
BIBLE Blonde or brunette, this rhyme applies, happy is he who knows them not
FRANCOIS VILLON The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not...
CONFUCIUS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
WILLIAM LAW The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
ANATOLE FRANCE The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows no...
PROVERB Happy, happy fashion - there is not much more to it than that,
MARC JACOBS You can't spell impossible without spelling possible!
REBEKAH APEL Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
VIRGIL No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
SOLON No man is happy. He is, at best, fortunate.
SOLON A fool is only a fool when he doesn't know he's a fool. But if a fool knows he's a fool, then there ...
FATHOM He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows tha...
ARAB PROVERB He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows ...
PERSIAN PROVERB Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be ha...
ORHAN PAMUK Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows? I know that he is really happy that I am playing with Boston right now.
INFIELDER ENRIQUE WILSON Call no man happy till he is dead.
AESCHYLUS call no man happy until he is dead
HERODOTUS Call no man happy until he is dead.
SOLON He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
He who knows not and knows h...
BRUCE LEE He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer
WILLIAM PROXMIRE It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, th...
JOYCE CARY She is happy, for she knows
That her dust is very pretty
DOROTHY PARKER The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
ROBERTSON DAVIES He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
He who knows not and he know...
BRUCE LEE Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The poor man is happy; he expects no change for the worse
DEMETRIUS War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
WILLIAM COWPER Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SOLON The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured.
"Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.
CASSANDRA CLARE It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know -- the less a man knows, the mor...
JOYCE CARY Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
LAO TZU Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE It is horrible to be sad that someone is happy but it is even more evil to be happy that someone is ...
NICNICLOUISIANA He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.
WILLIAM PROXMIRE When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
E F BENSON When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
EDWARD FREDERIC BENSON When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
EDWARD FREDERICK BENSON He literally learned about it on his deathbed, ... He was so happy to hear this.
RICK FITZGERALD The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as ...
SUE GRAFTON Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
MOLI When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he ...
PROVERB There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
IBN GABIROL There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. Th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that st...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to...
GRETCHEN RUBIN The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expect...
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise
FRANCIS BACON SR. Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass life's goal.
SOPHOCLES I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Herding some good feelings today, with hope that one day, I will be a good shepherd of JOY.
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HAPPY MUDIMELI Problem and Solution are mutually exclusive events. Because when you have a problem it means that yo...
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HAPPY MUDIMELI Give without expecting anything in return, and in return unexpected things will happen.
HAPPY MUDIMELI Hard working is always a tremendous way to genuinely reach your dream.
HAPPY MUDIMELI If its truly yours, take your time to learn about it, there is no need to rush it
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HAPPY MUDIMELI I love love! And everything about it! It honestly feels like magic, the way you’re emotionally con...
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HAPPY FBI Be happy, be thankful, be YOU. It may seem hard to do, you know, to be happy, and be who you are, bu...
HAPPY FBI We have to find a way to slow them down.
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HAPPY FULFORD This year it is real important for in our case, about a 19 percent increase. In bad years it is impo...
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ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
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Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
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ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
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ALEXANDER POPE But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
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ALEXANDER POPE Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
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ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
ALEXANDER POPE Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
ALEXANDER POPE Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
ALEXANDER POPE Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
ALEXANDER POPE Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
ALEXANDER POPE From pride, from pride, our very reas
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ALEXANDER POPE Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPE An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPE All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPE For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Die and endow a college or a cat.
ALEXANDER POPE But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heav...
ALEXANDER POPE Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
ALEXANDER POPE True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPE Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing;
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ALEXANDER POPE Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
ALEXANDER POPE In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
ALEXANDER POPE You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
ALEXANDER POPE Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
ALEXANDER POPE Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
ALEXANDER POPE Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
ALEXANDER POPE True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
ALEXANDER POPE When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
ALEXANDER POPE I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
ALEXANDER POPE Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
ALEXANDER POPE Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
ALEXANDER POPE What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
ALEXANDER POPE I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
ALEXANDER POPE Health consists with temperance alone.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part; there all honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE An honest man's the noblest work of God.
ALEXANDER POPE Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
ALEXANDER POPE For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
ALEXANDER POPE And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
ALEXANDER POPE We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; ALEXANDER POPE By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
ALEXANDER POPE To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged th...
ALEXANDER POPE Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more ...
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
ALEXANDER POPE Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
ALEXANDER POPE Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
ALEXANDER POPE Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
ALEXANDER POPE Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
ALEXANDER POPE Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
ALEXANDER POPE The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
ALEXANDER POPE Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
ALEXANDER POPE The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
ALEXANDER POPE Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
ALEXANDER POPE Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
ALEXANDER POPE Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
ALEXANDER POPE Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
ALEXANDER POPE Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
ALEXANDER POPE Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
ALEXANDER POPE Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
ALEXANDER POPE A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
ALEXANDER POPE Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
ALEXANDER POPE In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
ALEXANDER POPE See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
ALEXANDER POPE Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that ...
ALEXANDER POPE Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
ALEXANDER POPE Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
ALEXANDER POPE And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
ALEXANDER POPE Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
ALEXANDER POPE Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
ALEXANDER POPE I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
ALEXANDER POPE The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
ALEXANDER POPE Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where o...
ALEXANDER POPE Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
ALEXANDER POPE You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
ALEXANDER POPE Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
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