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Own Quotes by Alexander Pope
- 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…
- The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to…
- What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the…
- But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
- Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make…
- The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through…
- See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd…
- 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…
- 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.
- Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
- Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
- Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
- A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying...that he is wiser today than he was…
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