To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there.Alexander Pope
See how the force of others' pray'rs I try,
(O pious fraud of am'rous charity!
Alexander Pope
Let Blood and Body bear the fault,
Her Head's untouch'd, that noble Seat of Thought:
Such this day's doctrine--in another fit
She sins with Poets thro' pure Love of Wit.
Alexander Pope
So very reasonable, so unmov'd,
As never yet to love, or to be lov'd.
Alexander Pope
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Alexander Pope
What has not fir'd her bosom or her brain?
Alexander Pope
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