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True 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…
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
- 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…
- T is true,t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
- True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
- Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
- 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…
- True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
- The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord…
- 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
- 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…
- Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since…
- Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
- False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is…
- True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
- True, conscious honor is to feel no sin, he's armed without that's innocent within; be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
- True, conscious honour is to feel no sin; he's armed without that's innocent within.
- 'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find in all the world, much less in woman-kind
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