"Gentle dullness ever loves a joke." — Alexander Pope
"Gentle dullness ever loves a joke."
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Alexander Pope
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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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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary…
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The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one…
— William James
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that…
— George Santayana
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of…
— Francis Bacon
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The devil's name is dullness.
— Robert E. Lee
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I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an…
— George Eliot
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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both…
— William Butler Yeats
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The…
— Howard Zinn
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
— Edith Sitwell
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The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from…
— Burl Ives
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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