Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.


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you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI
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
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
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
The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the...
ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN
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
Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed...
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT
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
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is t...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL
Strive to make something of yourself; then strive to make the most of yourself.
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of ...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL