No creature smarts so little as a fool.


Alexander Pope

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JAMES JOYCE
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE
Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
What a strange creature is a laughing fool,
As if a man were created to no use
But only to...
JOHN WEBSTER
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
[Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST
There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
SIR RICHARD STEELE
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a kna...
GEORGE SAVILE
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a kna...
GEORGE SAVILE
Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN
You are the damnedest creature! You make me think of the old story about Alexander the Great. He wep...
ANNE RICE
Points for effort, if not using your smarts so much, Brian.
DARYN KAGAN
No pope ever condemned slavery
JOSEPH MCCABE
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?"
Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so noto...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE
There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON
The pope has a standing invitation and in no way has it been canceled.
SERGEI YASTRZHEMBSKY
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
JOHN DRYDEN
If you kill Trailblazer, you might as well kill NSA. Gen. Alexander has no choice but to find a way ...
JAMES BAMFORD
As dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to this folly.
BIBLE
Any fool can cause a strike. But no fool can resolve one.
GEORGE ANTHONY
A wise man learns from his mistakes;
a fool won't even learn from his fatal ones.
There is...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
And a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap, / Worthy of washing the hands of the Pope.
REV. R. H. BARHAM
No creature matters to 'the mind', they matter to 'the heart' of us... as human.
MICHAEL BOAG
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little foo...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
A brilliant man. That's where Joey gets all his smarts.
CHRIS CHEEK
Even if you lack the smarts, be a good person.
OLASOT
Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
THOMAS MANN
In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN
No matter how smart and able you are, one mustn't trade benevolence for anything. Even if you lack t...
OLASOT
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
So true a fool is love that in your will,Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope is an enormous disappointment for all those who ho...
HANS KUNG
There's no question we're going to have to do a good job against Alexander. He's the guy that makes ...
JAMES FARRIOR
A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON
You might as well try to see the Pope.
IVA JOHNSON
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way ...
EDMOND ABOUT
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
It's a sick little creature that carries a child in her body for nine months and starts telling it n...
BOBBY W. MILLER
We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
DONALD TRUMP
The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB
I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that defi...
ALEXANDRA CHANDO
There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.
JACOB BRAUDE
There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.
JACOB BRAUDE
The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
STEVEN GROVER CLEVELAND
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in...
HERMAN MELVILLE
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P. J. O'ROURKE
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.
P.J. O'ROURKE
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while livi...
THOMAS VERNOR SMITH
If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
E.B. WHITE
As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.
JOHN ALLEN
He's standing in a cluster of black T-shirts - together, they look like the wilted petals on a singl...
HOLLY SCHINDLER
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
O innocent victims of Cupid,Remember this terse little verse:To let a fool kiss you is stupid,To let...
E. Y. HARBURG
It was almost immediate that we started to see Pope Benedict items and memorabilia come onto the sit...
HANI DURZY
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Fool me no fools.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON
No one but a fool is always right.
DAVID HARE
No fool can be silent at a feast.
SOLON
No fool can be silent at a feast
SOLON
Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
Neither our actions as trustees, nor the court's decision, deprived Jane Pope of so much as a dime t...
ART POPE
Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individ...
LYSANDER SPOONER
Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolv...
SAUL DAVID
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer
WILLIAM PROXMIRE
He will go down as a fifth-century pope in terms of who women are.
FRANCES KISSLING
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re bot...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.
CHARLIZE THERON
No human creature can give orders to love.
GEORGE SAND
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
BARBARA WALTERS
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian thir...
MURIEL SPARK
One day a little chicken was being mocked by the other chickens,because she was small and they were ...
GARY F EVANS...
I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
ALEX TURNER
Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE
It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY
Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA
I'm no fool. I understand how important guard play is.
DAVE LEITAO
Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still ...
KOBE BRYANT
When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman
EURIPIDES
I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what l...
GEORGE ELIOT
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
GEORGE ORWELL
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
BIBLE
As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
JACK LEVINE
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the ...
JOHN PODHORETZ
O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stu...
E. Y. HARBURG

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
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Philos...
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
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Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
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Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
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Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
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But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
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Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Die and endow a college or a cat.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
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Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the d...
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In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
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Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
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Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
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Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
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Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
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No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
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One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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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.
ALEXANDER POPE