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May I govern my passion with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away


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May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.
WALTER POPE If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town; May I have ...
WALTER POPE In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm...
USHER Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Coul...
WILLIAM OLDYS I give this heavy weight from off my head And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like...
AMANDA LINDHOUT To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with whic...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG ... Now I'll close my eyes with all my strength
and fly away singing my baby girl's favorite so...
JOHN ZEA The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of thing...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of thing...
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a...
CARLY FIORINA My mother...taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and...
CARLY FIORINA It was conferred on me for my art, not for my being Jewish -- for my art and my service to this pope...
GILBERT LEVINE Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books...
WILLIAM COWPER Some people they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.
COLLEEN HOOVER My passion is philanthropy. His passion may be politics.
KIRAN PATEL I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM I love comedy with a passion, and I hope that shows in my work. I would never want to move an inch a...
DARREN BOYD You mean so much to me. When someone wears my number, I think it represents our whole team. My teamm...
DEE BROWN As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
WENDY CARLOS It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.
EVAN ANDERSON Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
JACOPO SANNAZARO I will give away at least half my wealth during my lifetime and after my death. In the meantime, I&#...
JOHN CAUDWELL Don’t grow older—grow wiser.
DEBASISH MRIDHA My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can sur...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it'...
JUSTIN BIEBER My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prospe...
HILLARY CLINTON There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My influences are Priest Holmes and Walter Payton,
JASON WILLIAMS My devotion stemmed from my mom's love of horses. I have been riding since I could walk, and the...
BELLA HADID Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head...
WILLIAM COWPER After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The English Language is but a Delilah, I am but her Samson. Despite how well she and other men may b...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER We hope that as the evening wears on, we will have enough to govern with the Christian Democratic Un...
GUIDO WESTERWELLE I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop...
MARTIN LUTHER I married a homecoming queen, which means I know as much about college football as the next person, ...
DAN JENKINS I married a homecoming queen, which means I know as much about college football as the next person, ...
DAN JENKINS The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my br...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER In a world where bad behavior is celebrated with a reality television salary and being mean to one a...
ELIZABETH VEGA The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs y...
THEMISTOCLES As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world i...
PARK CHAN-WOOK I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER Since I cannot govern my own tongue, tho' within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
ISAAC WATTS Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Learn wider, grow wiser!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
JOHN WESLEY Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason
JOHN WESLEY Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that...
MOLLY RINGWALD First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
THOMAS FULLER I restate my absolute and unreserved apology.
JOHN BROGDEN My mother is my teacher
Her words make me richer
I thank you oh my mother
May you gro...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other pas...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other pas...
LORD BYRON Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears,
and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,
T...
JOHN KEATS I'm the most Failure Model of My parents activities
SATHESH KUMAR M I'm always edgy when I bowl and Walter Ray has been my most difficult opponent.
CHRIS COLLINS Themosticles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me;...
PLUTARCH And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...
GEORGE ELIOT Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
LORD BYRON Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman comm...
EUGENE KENNEDY As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
FREDERIC CHOPIN I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.
ELLEN DEGENERES As my wife can attest, this is my absolute favorite.
TERRY GANNON My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of...
AGA KHAN IV I was simply defending my profession and my passion.
DICK POUND He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long a...
JOHN SELDEN My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
HENRY ROLLINS Had it been possible for me to fix the plane permanently in the sky, to defy the winds and clouds an...
JERZY KOSIńSKI One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being. I...
FERNANDO FLORES I believe I'm strength to the team. But my teammates have strengthened me. The better I get, the bet...
DAVID PIENAAR I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in lif...
ALAN RITCHSON To be able to compose for such a talent and then have my musical intentions carried out with absolut...
LES MARSDEN With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fin...
JOHN MCGRAW There is strength in every struggle. Struggles create opportunities for you to become stronger, wise...
KEMI SOGUNLE We sit and talk, and kiss away the hours as chastely as the morning dews kiss flowers: I touch her, ...
THOMAS RANDOLPH Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed.
Love me only for my body, and I will gr...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA I have changed my ministers, but I have not changed my measures; I am still for moderation and will ...
PRINCESS ANNE My work is my passion and my life is all about to withstand with commitment & courage.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
ANNE LAMOTT My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity c...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS It is my hope that Pope Francis realizes his time is better spent focusing on matters like religious...
PAUL GOSAR Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizin...
JULIANNA BAGGOTT I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and m...
KAHLIL GIBRAN My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then...
JANE YOLEN All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I know my skating is my strength, but a small guy like me has to be much better than everyone else. ...
AARON GAGNON ...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.
SOPHIE KINSELLA The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually compl...
ROMESH GUNESEKERA I try to be passionate about every aspect of my life, how I love my wife, how I serve my wife, how I...
TROY POLAMALU I live to enjoy life by the littlest things, feeling the grass between my toes, breathing fresh air,...
MARIGOLD WELLINGTON You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to yo...
GEORGE SAND It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love i...
SIDNEY CROSBY With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I...
JOHN MCGRAW

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ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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With his own ...
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ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
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ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
ALEXANDER POPE Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
ALEXANDER POPE Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
ALEXANDER POPE Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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ALEXANDER POPE Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPE An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPE All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPE For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Die and endow a college or a cat.
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ALEXANDER POPE Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
ALEXANDER POPE True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPE Wit is the lowest form of humor.
ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Placed on this...
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ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There sha...
ALEXANDER POPE Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
ALEXANDER POPE In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
ALEXANDER POPE You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
ALEXANDER POPE Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
ALEXANDER POPE Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
ALEXANDER POPE Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
ALEXANDER POPE True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
ALEXANDER POPE When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
ALEXANDER POPE I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
ALEXANDER POPE Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
ALEXANDER POPE Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
ALEXANDER POPE What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
ALEXANDER POPE I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
ALEXANDER POPE Health consists with temperance alone.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part; there all honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE An honest man's the noblest work of God.
ALEXANDER POPE Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
ALEXANDER POPE For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
ALEXANDER POPE And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
ALEXANDER POPE We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; ALEXANDER POPE By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
ALEXANDER POPE To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged th...
ALEXANDER POPE Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more ...
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
ALEXANDER POPE Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
ALEXANDER POPE Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
ALEXANDER POPE Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
ALEXANDER POPE Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
ALEXANDER POPE Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
ALEXANDER POPE The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
ALEXANDER POPE Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
ALEXANDER POPE The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
ALEXANDER POPE Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
ALEXANDER POPE Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
ALEXANDER POPE Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
ALEXANDER POPE Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
ALEXANDER POPE Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
ALEXANDER POPE Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
ALEXANDER POPE Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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ALEXANDER POPE A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
ALEXANDER POPE Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
ALEXANDER POPE In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
ALEXANDER POPE See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
ALEXANDER POPE Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that ...
ALEXANDER POPE Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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