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His Quotes by Alexander Pope
- A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of…
- The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
- Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
- But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
- The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
- Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
- For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
More His Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud