Alexander Pope Quotes

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• Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the…
• The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
• For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and…
• 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 to cross, who pens a…
• An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
• But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
• Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
• A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior…
• Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
• Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
• A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
• Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.

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