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.
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,Aspiring to be angels, men rebel:
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against th' Eternal Cause.
Alexander Pope
'With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want'She wants a heart.
Alexander Pope
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore Full well they merit all they feel, and more Unaw'd by precepts, human or divine, Like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
Alexander Pope
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence?
Alexander Pope
Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air;
Choose a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Alexander Pope
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
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