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Old Quotes by Alexander Pope
- 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…
- See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second…
- When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old,…
- There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
- Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
- The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And…
- Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but…
- In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are…
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