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Wise Quotes by Alexander Pope
- For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and…
- Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
- A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
- But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
- We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
- Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
- If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly…
- 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…
- Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in…
- Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race,…
- No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What…
- Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from…
- Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
- Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
- Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
- Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
- 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,…
- Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies
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