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Stills Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
- Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free…
- Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all…
- Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
- Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,…
- 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…
- There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
- Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,…
- But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
- In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,…
- Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown…
- Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
- The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
- Woman's at best a contradiction still.
- 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
- Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to…
- If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better…
- Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with…
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