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Alexander Pope Quotes

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us Picture Quote #1

Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there Picture Quote #1

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature Picture Quote #1

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know Picture Quote #1

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you Picture Quote #1

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous Picture Quote #1

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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside Picture Quote #1

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday Picture Quote #1

For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense Picture Quote #1

He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one Picture Quote #1

Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples Picture Quote #1

The garlands fade, the vows are worn away; So dies her love, and so my hopes decay Picture Quote #1

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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! Where is thy victory? O death! Where is thy sting? Picture Quote #1

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool Picture Quote #1

The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line Picture Quote #1

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home Picture Quote #1

Created half to rise, and half to fall; great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; the glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Picture Quote #1

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; the rest is all but leather or prunella Picture Quote #1

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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike Picture Quote #1

Atheists put on a false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear Picture Quote #1

It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own Picture Quote #1

As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came Picture Quote #1

Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, the creature’s at his dirty work again Picture Quote #1

For virtue’s self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad Picture Quote #1

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How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug, and sucked all over, like an industrious bug Picture Quote #1

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight Picture Quote #1

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity Picture Quote #1

See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards Picture Quote #1

Shakespeare... For gain not glory, winged his roving flight, and grew immortal in his own despite Picture Quote #1

Where’er you find the cooling western breeze’, in the next line, it whispers through the trees’: If crystal streams with pleasing murmurs creep’, the reader’s threatened, not in vain, with sleep’ Picture Quote #1

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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us (Alexander Pope Quotes) Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there (Alexander Pope Quotes) Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature (Alexander Pope Quotes) The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know (Alexander Pope Quotes) Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you (Alexander Pope Quotes) Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous (Alexander Pope Quotes) In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside (Alexander Pope Quotes) A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday (Alexander Pope Quotes) For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense (Alexander Pope Quotes) He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one (Alexander Pope Quotes) Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples (Alexander Pope Quotes) The garlands fade, the vows are worn away; So dies her love, and so my hopes decay (Alexander Pope Quotes) Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! Where is thy victory? O death! Where is thy sting? (Alexander Pope Quotes) The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool (Alexander Pope Quotes) The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line (Alexander Pope Quotes) You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home (Alexander Pope Quotes) Created half to rise, and half to fall; great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; the glory, jest, and riddle of the world! (Alexander Pope Quotes) Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; the rest is all but leather or prunella (Alexander Pope Quotes) Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike (Alexander Pope Quotes) Atheists put on a false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear (Alexander Pope Quotes) It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own (Alexander Pope Quotes) As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came (Alexander Pope Quotes) Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, the creature’s at his dirty work again (Alexander Pope Quotes) For virtue’s self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad (Alexander Pope Quotes) How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug, and sucked all over, like an industrious bug (Alexander Pope Quotes) One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight (Alexander Pope Quotes) One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity (Alexander Pope Quotes) See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards (Alexander Pope Quotes) Shakespeare... For gain not glory, winged his roving flight, and grew immortal in his own despite (Alexander Pope Quotes) Where’er you find the cooling western breeze’, in the next line, it whispers through the trees’: If crystal streams with pleasing murmurs creep’, the reader’s threatened, not in vain, with sleep’ (Alexander Pope Quotes)

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