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Oft Quotes by Alexander Pope
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
- Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They…
- Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream;
- As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels…
- Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments…
- True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That…
- Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,…
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- The apparel oft proclaims the man. — William Shakespeare
- Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that… — George Linley
- The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do… — Robert Greene
- We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there? — John McLeod
- Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters… — Thomas Hood