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Letter "A" » Alexander Pope Quotes
«Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; / Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.»
«Fools admire, but men of sense approve.»
«The modest fan was lifted up no more, and virgins smiled at what they blushed before»
«For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; The worst of madmen is a saint run mad»
«Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame»
«The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| Keywords:
blockhead, blockheads, ignorantly, loads, lumber, lumbering, lumbers
«The right divine of kings to govern wrong»
«When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Age,
Youth
| Keywords:
comfortably, procuring, slavishly, whereby
«Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue»
«A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it»
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