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Thought Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
- 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…
- When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless…
- With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.
- Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a…
- 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.
- Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought…
- 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…
- To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
- Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in…
- 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…
- Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
- Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught,…
- 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…
- chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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