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Wells Quotes by Alexander Pope
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
- Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
- Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
- Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
- Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts,…
- For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
- 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…
- Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
- Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
- 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…
- 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…
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