Quotes by English/England authors (page 56)

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man will turn over half a library to make one book"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Men would be angels, angels would be gods"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"To err is human; to forgive, divine"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"And die of nothing but a rage to live"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"An honest man's the noblest work of God"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"All nature is but art unknown to thee"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul"

Alexander Pope, Poet

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