'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old It is the rust we value, not the gold.Alexander Pope
What future bliss, he gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
Alexander Pope
True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Alexander Pope
'fore Gad, you must be civil!
Alexander Pope
Ah ne'er so dire a Thirst of Glory boast,
Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost!
Alexander Pope
Some have at first for Wits then Poets past, Turned Critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
Alexander Pope
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