142 Quotations by Alexander Pope
- 101. Such laboured' nothings in so strange a style
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- 102. Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
- 103. Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy ...
- 104. Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
- 105. The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; ...
- 106. The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
- 107. The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
- 108. The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
- 109. The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
- 110. The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
- 111. The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves indifferently ...
- 112. The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
- 113. There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, "Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed."
- 114. There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
- 115. There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
- 116. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- 117. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone ...
- 118. Tis education forms the common mind;
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- 119. To be angry is revenge the faults of others upon ourselves.
- 120. To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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