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Men Quotes by Alexander Pope
- 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.
- Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only…
- Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
- Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
- Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he…
- If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly…
- A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
- Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.
- Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,…
- Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than…
- In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of…
- No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to…
- T is true,t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.
- Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
- Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
- A perfect woman's but a softer man.
- A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
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