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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.


Alexander Pope

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Some people will never learn anything; for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.
SOURCE UNKNOWN He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN You will meet people in life who will just dislike you for no reason, not because there is anything ...
KEYSHA JADE All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT Some people will never live life because they didn't live life to the fullest extent , and some peop...
ANDONI GARCIA To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
PAULO COELHO Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn, and that is the reason for which FIFA must intervene so as to return s...
LILIAN THURAM You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work a...
TANA FRENCH I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Some of these kids have never done anything like this. They get a chance to learn a whole different ...
BILL LOMBARDI Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen...
CARROT TOP People will die because we are already too late with our help. This is our warning that without imme...
ABDULLAHI ALI HAJI One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Jesus soon is coming,
and Christmas too,
Good reason for being happy,
Helping people...
VáLGAME For some reason, people had their hopes much higher than this, especially for the guidance. Everythi...
SAFA RASHTCHY I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
ANNE RICE The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge the...
AMEYA AGRAWAL You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is every...
THOMAS SOWELL We've never had anything in this park. The only reason we stay here is because it's cheap.
WALTER BROWN Even people who don't understand same sex marriage understand this country never, ever allowed for s...
DEB PRICE There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us....
DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN This thing scared me at first. It scared me because you are confronting almost like a ghost, ... Som...
CHARLES WOLF Some of it people will have to see. Once they see it, they will understand.
JENNIFER ANTKOWIAK We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never d...
PAT SUMMITT Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos c...
MICHIO KAKU Seen from Earth, a comet is a prodigy, coming out of the void for no reason, returning to the void f...
SCOTT ALEXANDER There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere,...
SHOLOM ALEICHEM If you teach a man anything, he will never learn
BERNARD SHAW Learn the truth...never assume.
Understand the plight...never judge.
Put yourself in someo...
KEMI SOGUNLE Some people read because they are too lazy to think.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot unde...
JAMES E. FAUST In our scrimmages and our practices, we catch everything. For some reason we've just been dropping t...
JAMES KIZER For some reason, everything just bypasses us.
JULIE CHEN Many people believe in superstitions, many believe in a coincidence, while some people believe every...
ADNAN BAHATTI The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too...
LYN NOFZIGER They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is ...
BEN JONSON They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast i...
BEN JONSON Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often prai...
FULTON J. SHEEN Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i...
J.D. SALINGER Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be f...
MOTHER ANGELICA Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by pract...
LAURIE COLWIN Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors,...
WONG KAR-WAI We understand the stage we're in and some people just don't understand we're a small country. We don...
GRANT HACKETT Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
ALAIN DE BOTTON We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking . . . that this happens is a matter of rec...
W. C. FIELDS One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
JUVENAL We knew we had everything else right and we weren't going to settle for anything but the best and th...
BEN CLARK Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
VERNON LAW Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
KARL LIEBKNECHT So for some reason everybody makes this huge deal about pandas. I don't know why. They never actuall...
DAVE BARRY A man may know everything, but he will never understand it all.
J.J. BOWLERS We can practically learn almost everything in life for free to bad it cost some people to try
JESSICA PONCE DE LEON They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything.
ANTHONY LICCIONE You will hear the birds' songs, only when you listen to it.You will learn everything, only when you ...
NISHI DE SILVA I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason.
PAULA POUNDSTONE Learn soon...Reach moon by bus,
if you late ...they will kike you out
MOHAMED SAAD You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buyin...
RON CHERNOW I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason -...
DREW BARRYMORE Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and F...
ANN HOOD These people can go anywhere they want, and if we don't get this resolved soon, they will.
STEVE KAY For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
JASON BLUM I wish people could accomplish everything they want so they could learn its not everything they need...
ORRIN WOODWARD The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN ...
SANDRA M. MICHELLE Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be ...
GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not becaus...
CHRISTIAN CARDELL CORBET Never share rich ideas with poor minds,for they will only devalue them,because the ideas are too ric...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) She helped me with my problems if I had boyfriend issues. She said everything happens for a reason. ...
ASHLEY THOMAS For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring ...
BOBBY BONILLA I don't always understand poetry!'

'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never unders...
ALAN BENNETT It's felt it's too soon after the introduction of euro notes and coins for any change. The ECB will ...
RAZIA KHAN It's too soon, too premature. We have so many leads coming in, it's impossible to rule anything out ...
SANDRA CARROLL everything used to be so simple...i don't understand anything anymore, it's like everything is so sh...
GRZ DZ Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
EDITH HEAD When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not becaus...
CHRISTIAN CARDELL CORBET You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you unde...
CASSANDRA CLARE The biggest reason for teaching this course is simply for fun and to learn a little more about art h...
LARS JONES Somebody will download an MP3 file, and we'll have this huge spike in (network usage) and everything...
DANNY DANIELS Some people are just sad, all of the time. Too sad to deal with - everything. Life, I guess. I don't...
HANNAH HARRINGTON I don't understand it, ... because I've never seen her sick or with anything resembling what she sup...
HEIDI FLEISS I don't understand it, ... because I've never seen her sick or with anything resembling what she sup...
HEIDI FLEISS Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they alway...
ASHLY LORENZANA Only when you will realize that you have wings and understand what they are for will you be able to ...
MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE) People lie and scam because you are too stupid to understand it.
DEYTH BANGER It's too soon to tell if this is a market change or if it's people waiting for the weather.
DIANE SAATCHI I've found over the years that for some reason, people either are big fans and have to use me, o...
FRED WILLARD We will never prevent environmental degradation until we stabilize our population. We simply must fa...
DIANA HULL Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and so...
MARTIN LUTHER People don't vote because they say they never get anything from the politicians, but I want that to ...
ABDUL LATIF For some people, there will never be enough time.
DAN KURTZ

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ALEXANDER POPE But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
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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.
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ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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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...
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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
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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.
ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
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Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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.
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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.
ALEXANDER POPE Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on othe...
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