On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail
On even keel, with gentle gale.
MATTHEW GREEN
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
MATTHEW GREEN
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE
Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the por...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
Drunkenness is when the tongue walks on stilts and reason goes forward under half a sail.
MARTIN LUTHER
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
BLAISE PASCAL
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the God of storms,
...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered lo...
CARL SAGAN Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on ...
KYLE ABRAHAM Far out at sea,--the sun was high,
While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,
We saw a snow-w...
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to t...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
BLAISE PASCAL
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion
BLAISE PASCAL
One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
MARY RENAULT
The question is, what are you going to do?"
It turns out the question that's been eating away ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell…well she never kissed me like that…I should have vol...
SUZANNE COLLINS
If hindrances obstruct the way,
Thy magnanimity display.
And let thy strength be seen:
B...
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
The boats are on the sea and the crews are on...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship betwee...
LIU CIXIN
We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.
[Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale,
And in the distant ray what glimmering sail
...
MRS. ANN WARD RADCLIFFE
[Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epit...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC
I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW My life is like a ship sailing a vast ocean. God is the navigator and I am the helmsman.
JIM GENOVESE
Reason is the slave of passion.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER We are all just points of light in this vast ocean of people,
The only question is?
How bright are y...
VéRONIQUE ÉDOUARDS
Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
ROMAN PAYNE
He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radia...
SUZANNE COLLINS Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER
The law is reason, free from passion.
ARISTOTLE
The law is reason free from passion
ARISTOTLE
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths...
ELIZABETH GEORGE But Gale? Gale is a warrior. He's a rebel. He's a badass. He's a knight.
LEAH WILSON Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man. STEPHEN CRANE I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we...
CHUCK DARBY
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN It was almost immediate that we started to see Pope Benedict items and memorabilia come onto the sit...
HANI DURZY
Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN Although the ocean is vast and the sea deep, human impacts now reach all corners of the planet, and ...
CHUCK FISHER
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your pass...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that’s why reason it is better than pa...
ZAMAN ALI
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD “To love with all your heart....To forgive with relentless compassion....To be purposefully used u...
MARTIN QUINN WILSON
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that...
ARRIAN
Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Go...
PAULLINA SIMONS
I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN
In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chap...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a ma...
ALEXANDER POPE
The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the le...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet - as if ...
SYLVIA EARLE
The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.
POPE PAUL VI
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still
ALEXANDER POPE
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE
All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean,...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
STEPHEN HAWKING
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me
LORRE WYATT
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means...
POPE PAUL VI That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Reason over passion.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN If these doors are open for any reason, then you've had it. ... All you need is bashing by the sea a...
RICHARD CLAYTON
What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.
MOTHER TERESA
If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
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But if
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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Ask you what provocation I have had?
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See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
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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.
ALEXANDER POPE