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One Quotes by Alexander Pope
- 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…
- Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
- A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
- In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
- Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more…
- Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with…
- 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…
- [T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?…
- I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
- True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
- 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.
- Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
- Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
- He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to…
- In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen,…
- See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
- Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's…
- And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
- The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
- I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole…
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