READ
AND REMEMBER
Find below a few notable
quotes. Read them and remember them. They will make you intelligent as also sagacious.
(a) .Epigrams of the English poet Alexander Pope(1688-1744).
1.Hope springs eternal in the human
breast:
Man never is but always to be
blest.
2. Honor and shame from no condition
rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
3. A wit’s a feather, and a chief a
rod;
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
4. A little learning is a dangerous
thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring”
There shallow drafts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
5. True ease in writing comes from
art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
‘Tis not enough no harshness gives offense---
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
6.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
7. For fools rush in where angels fear to
tread.
Note:
Pieria was the region of the Muses who represented arts and sciences.
……..
(b). Famous Sayings of English poet and essayist Joseph Addison
(1672-1719
1.What sculpture is to a block of
marble, education is to the soul.
2. Cheerfulness is the best promoter
of health.
3.Three grand essentials to happiness
in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
4. What sunshine is to flowers,
smiles are to humanity.
5. Sunday clears away the rust of the
whole week.
6. Reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body.
7. The greatest sweetener of human
life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret
which but few discover.
8. Books are the legacies that a
great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to
generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
(c ) The
following famous quote from ‘To a Skylark’ a poem written by the English poet Percy
Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) :
We
look before and after,
And
pine for what is not;
Our
sincerest laughter
With
some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that
tell of saddest thought.
*******
G.R.Kanwal
2nd May 2025
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