Best Alexander Pope Proverbs
- Most authors steal their works, or buy. Art
- True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. Consists
- I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. Affair
- There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed. Bed
- Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. Charm
- To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. Attempting
- I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Adversity
- Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. Common
- Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge… Enemy
- A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants. Commonwealth
- Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally. Faults
- A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of. Good
- The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? Care
- That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. Agreeable
- The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. Dissolve
- All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. All
- Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. Brighter
- Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Blushing
- Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Anger
- Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity. Inspirational
- Love the offender, yet detest the offense. Detest
- Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them. Converse
- Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. Inspirational
- The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are… Angry
- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. Advantage
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