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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.


Alexander Pope

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PéRIGORD There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be...
COCO CHANEL It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to under...
EMILE DURKHEIM Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not. -...
UNKNOWN Christianity, in its enlarged sense, as a religion revealed and taught in the bible, is not unknown ...
JAMES KENT God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.
THE TALMUD He felt it was important for young men to be involved in community activities ... that taught them a...
GREG ROGERS Some things cannot be taught; they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in...
ROY T. BENNETT If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
PLATO If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
SAUL BELLOW Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and ...
ARTHUR GANSON One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of th...
PATRICK OVERTON Some things can't be taught; they can only be discovered.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I was always taught, even as a kid, playing against grown men, you get better.
DRAYMOND GREEN Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a schoo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look...
C.S. LEWIS If you are willing to learn, you can be taught. If you are unwilling to learn, you can't be taught.
LORRIN L. LEE The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you...
PEMA CHODRON I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must se...
MICHAEL MICHALKO Love one another as Jesus loves you. Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving i...
ANONYMOUS As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at le...
AMBETH R. OCAMPO We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
TED LANGE It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
VANCE HAVNER It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.
COLIN KAEPERNICK By Time and Age full many things are taught.
AESCHYLUS What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you...
JACK MCBRAYER Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them ...
ROBERT DALE OWEN The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls a...
KRISTIN HANNAH Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to ...
BORIS PASTERNAK Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.
ROBBIE COLTRANE When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown...
PATRICK OVERTON We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We c...
LOUISE DOUGHTY While boys are taught that the things that make them men--good men--are universally accepted ethical...
JESSICA VALENTI But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If...
CHARLIE SHEEN Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it ...
CHARLES MCCARRY The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving ...
SCOTT EASTWOOD The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from sever...
ZIG ZIGLAR Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether yo...
C. JOYBELL C. I don't think anything should be taught as dogma,
STEVE ABRAMS It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he mu...
ZINEDINE ZIDANE When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darknes...
PATRICK OVERTON When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of...
BARBARA J. WINTER When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of ...
BARBARA J. WINTER If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you receive things just as an echo of yourself, you do not really see them, you do not fully acce...
SHUNRYU SUZUKI Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
TONI MORRISON The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomf...
ANNE LAMOTT We also taught them self-reliance, courtship and sexual discipline as they head towards maturity.
LYDIA KANDA When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u...
EDWARD TELLER Two of my friends are very accurate at doing justice to something, they are as accurate as nothing c...
SIDDHARTH DUBEY If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.
JAMES BROWN If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe...
QUENTIN CRISP Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge ...
AMELIA EARHART I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me,...
MARCELO BALBOA You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposit...
PROTAGORAS But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. Tha...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or tr...
JOHN RUSKIN A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pu...
JOAN RIVERS One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you...
CHARLES H. TOWNES If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or d...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
COKIE ROBERTS Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.
LEIGH BARDUGO Life had taught him to be profoundly suspicious of coincidence, and it had similarly taught him to v...
DONNA LEON They taught me a lot of things. They worked real hard in practice. When you're along side them, it m...
ANDREW PALMER He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all m...
PETER V. BRETT I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
NASTASSJA KINSKI My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ...
BETTY CUTHBERT Doug basically reiterated the same things that Tubby taught me - discipline and hard work.
BENNIE GIBBS I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protec...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too...
GEORGE COMBE It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his ...
PAUL BEGALA I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and...
M. J. ROSE One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causa...
THOMAS SOWELL If you were blessed to have parents who taught you to be responsible for your choices, then you shou...
DANNY SILK Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.
GEORGE HERBERT And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT The teaching of godliness must be preached and taught in every available medium.
SUNDAY ADELAJA My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ...
BETTY CUTHBERT The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they'r...
JAMAICA KINCAID Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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ALEXANDER POPE Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
ALEXANDER POPE Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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...
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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.
ALEXANDER POPE Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
ALEXANDER POPE Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
ALEXANDER POPE From pride, from pride, our very reas
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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.
ALEXANDER POPE But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heav...
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...
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow d...
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.
ALEXANDER POPE In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
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.
ALEXANDER POPE Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
ALEXANDER POPE Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
ALEXANDER POPE And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
ALEXANDER POPE Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
ALEXANDER POPE Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
ALEXANDER POPE I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
ALEXANDER POPE The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
ALEXANDER POPE Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where o...
ALEXANDER POPE Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
ALEXANDER POPE You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
ALEXANDER POPE Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
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