172 Quotes About English-poet

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

We always may be what we might have been.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.