M.K. Alexander Quotes
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
