"To dazzle let the vain design, To raise……" — Alexander Pope
"To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!"
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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 Dazzle Quotes
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one of 80 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and…
— Jimmy Cannon
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours;…
— Pierre Loti
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Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The…
— Nikola Tesla
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I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.
— Randy Moss
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How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they…
— Hannah More
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What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?
— Gwen Harwood
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You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge…
— Rose Philippine Duchesne
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There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the…
— Alex James
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
— Walter Scott
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There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the…
— Unknown Author
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The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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