"Wit in conversation is only a readiness of……" — Alexander Pope
"Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery."
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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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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
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I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand…
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means…
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone…
— Sara Blakely
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as…
— Robert M. Hutchins
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In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate…
— William James
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
— Thomas Hobbes
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