Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Arrogance
Quotations by Alexander Pope



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  1. Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. Alexander Pope Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.PraiseQuotations by Alexander Pope...
  2. Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men. Alexander Pope Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.PraiseQuotations by Alexander Pope...
  3. The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.PraiseQuotations by Norman Vincent Peale...
  4. Man muß die Menschen so belehren, als ob man sie nicht belehrte, und unbekannte Dinge vortragen, als seien sie nur vergessen. (Alexander Pope) Geburtstag und ZITAT DES TAGES von heute: Alexander Pope (21.5.1688 – 30.5.1744) Schriftsteller, Übersetzer, Herausgeber, Dichter, ‘Pastorals’, ‘Essay on Criticism’, ‘The Rape of the Lock – Der Lockenraub’, ‘The Dunciad’, ‘Windsor Forest’, ‘Sheffields’ (England, 1688 – 1744). Bauernregel des Tages: Ist’s im Mai recht kalt und naß, haben die Maikäfer wenig Spaß. Heute ist: Freitag, [...]...
  5. "The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding" – Joseph Addison “The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding” – Joseph Addison...
  6. To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. -Pope, Alexander To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. -Pope, Alexander...
  7. "Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . ." – Thomas Hardy “Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . .” – Thomas Hardy...