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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.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: approve
«The modest fan was lifted up no more, and virgins smiled at what they blushed before»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: blushed, fan, lifted, modest, smiled
«For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; The worst of madmen is a saint run mad»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: madmen
«Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: blush, good-by, stealth
«The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head»
«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»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Poets | Keywords: Sung, tuneful, untimely
«A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Business