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World Quotes by Alexander Pope
- In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
- In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
- 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…
- Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as…
- For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong…
- The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
- Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
- A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
- The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are…
- 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.
- Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
- While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
- See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
- The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And…
- Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
- How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
- The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
- Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a…
- The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
- Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all…
- 'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find in all the world, much less in woman-kind
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