"Let such teach others who themselves excel, And……" — Alexander Pope
"Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well."
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532 Quotes by Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope has 532 quotes on this site.
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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 Censure Quotes
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although…
— Giacomo Casanova
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding…
— Adam Clarke
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the…
— Joseph Addison
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
— Alexander Pope
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of…
— William Gilmore Simms
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to…
— Alexander Pope
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of…
— Tryon Edwards
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
— Juvenal
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