 | Treasury - 1872 - 166 pages
...last. 'Tis not enough your counsel to be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do : Men must be taught, as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good breeding truth is disapproved ; That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggard of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...last. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good-breeding, truth is disapproved ; That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...last. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true : Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good breeding truth is disapproved : That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...to the jaundic'd eye. Part ii. Line 358. And make each day a critic on the last. Part iii. Line 12. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. Part iii. Line 15. The hookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...before your scholars as the great reality. So teach, and you will not teach in vain. — Dr. Channing. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot — Pop«. TEACHER.— The Christian a Every Christian should bo a teacher, and every teacher should... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1870 - 684 pages
...(enough for man to know), 41 Virtue alone is happiness oelow." To err is numan ! to forgive, divine. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to other's show. That mercy... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...MILTON. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgo!. Without good breeding truth is disapproved; That only makes superior sense beloved. POPE. 334... | |
 | Dale Carnegie - Self-Help - 1982 - 308 pages
...adroitly, that no one will feel that you are doing it. This was expressed succinctly by Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...teaches, it is only as Pope's critic does, by seeming to remind his audience of what it already knows: Men must be taught as if you taught them not; And Things unknown propos'd as Things forgot. (ll. 575-6) An amateur speaking to fellow amateurs, his claim is not to... | |
 | Thomas M. Woodman - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 180 pages
...morality: Tis not enough your Counsel still be true, Blunt Truths more Mischief than nice Falshoods do; Men must be taught as if you taught them not; And Things unknown propos'd as Things forgot: Without Good Breeding, Truth is disapprov'd; That only makes Superior Sense... | |
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Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. 
