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Us Quotes by Alexander Pope
- We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
- How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even…
- It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
- Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than…
- Beauty draws us with a single hair.
- The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
- Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
- What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
- Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
- Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- 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…
- Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers…
- What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers…
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