"The sound must seem an echo to the…" — Alexander Pope

"The sound must seem an echo to the sense."

— Alexander Pope

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532 Quotes by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope has 532 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the…
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once…
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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 Echo Quotes

This quote is filed under Echo Quotes, one of 355 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
There is no love that is not an echo. — Theodor Adorno
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. — Otto von Bismarck
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an… — Thomas Carlyle
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. — Emile M. Cioran
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the… — Eric Clapton
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting… — William Shakespeare
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get.… — Zig Ziglar
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. — Gene Wolfe

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