"Ask you what provocation I have had? The……" — Alexander Pope
"Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad."
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532 Quotes by Alexander Pope
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the…
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once…
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul…
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More Antipathy Quotes
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Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.
— David Ruggles
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You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs…
— Barack Obama
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My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and…
— Albert Einstein
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Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy....
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle…
— Albert Pike
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Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious.…
— Rhoda Janzen
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In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong…
— Franz Boas
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ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits…
— Hans Kmoch
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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught…
— Oscar Wilde
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Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can…
— Isaac Asimov
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.
— George Santayana
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