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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to danc...
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance
ALEXANDER POPE I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
SHARON DRAPER Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend
RABINDRANATH TAGORE To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.
LYNDA RESNICK All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from...
E. L. KONIGSBURG Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
J. G. STEDMAN Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach...
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach...
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE Idea comes from senses, but imagination goes beyond. Those who could impel idea with imagination hav...
JONATHAN CHEN I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Sp...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those wh...
DAVID CAMERON One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, ...
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.
WAYNE KNIGHT I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I woul...
AIMEE GARCIA He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he ...
JENNIFER GRANT I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get...
BERENICE MARLOHE 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 Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
CATIE CURTIS Those who do not complicate life choose the easiest way to achieve happiness.
ERALDO BANOVAC Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
EDDIE VEDDER True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul
KUNAL JAJAL Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
GEORGE SANTAYANA We have not received those numbers in writing from the company yet.
JEFF MATHEWS We are FREE, not bound like a Tree. We can Move, we can Dance ...we can take a Chance! -RVM
RVM Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relatio...
RANDA HAINES And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then t...
PETER T. KING The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
KATHARINE WHITEHORN The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
KATHERINE WHITEHORN And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance on
THEODORE ROETHKE If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results...
AMANDA PALMER You can learn good manners from those who don’t have any.
VIKRANT PARSAI There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whethe...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made ...
ILLINOIS JACQUET Those who don't know must learn from those who do.
PLATO Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers mo...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwh...
PIERRE CONEILLE Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
PIERRE CONEILLE Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
SIR WILFRED GRENFELL Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
WILFRED GRENFELL I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
DANIEL WOODRELL There were a lot of designers who did not take a chance for Fall 2005, and I think those designers a...
CONSTANCE WHITE Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistake...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a ma...
ALEXANDER POPE Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music.
ANON. Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicula...
PETER DIAMANDIS I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of...
KEVIN CHAMBERLIN If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to ...
DARYL HALL There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.
EVA IBBOTSON The audience comes away with experiencing everything from comedy to tears as these scenes deliver th...
HAROLD GOULD If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You lea...
MICHAEL MORPURGO 'Those who can't, teach' is the saying that comes to mind, and I know a lot about art but have not s...
LARS JONES The model that I'd always seen as a little boy, as a teenager, as I watched other political care...
MARK TAKANO When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd...
ELAINE STRITCH Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those wh...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE Dream will come true when you are awakened to the situation & work on it with consistency.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Don’t think you have lost the time.Take each & every situation you encounter as stepping stone to ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young si...
MARCELLO GIORDANI When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street,...
MICKEY DREXLER Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attentio...
TEJU COLE In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. F...
JOHN WESLEY It is true that students who are deaf struggle with the English language, especially with reading an...
JENNIFER HOWELL Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writer...
PADDY CHAYEFSKY To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to elimin...
CAL THOMAS The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope is an enormous disappointment for all those who ho...
HANS KUNG My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested th...
MADHURI DIXIT How everything comes??
I really don't know I can say that it comes from nowhere :D :d.
DEYTH BANGER Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's...
MARK MORRIS Wisdom only comes to those that are willing to search for it and learn from their experiences.
CELESTINE L. GRAY I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
GEORGE CARLIN I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
GEORGE CARLIN If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yo...
ALLISON DUBOIS I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I could...
SIA I'm one of those people who think I can learn something from everybody.
DAVID OTUNGA Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in ...
EL DEBARGE The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to ...
GEORGE PACKER When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly...
CHRIS LILLEY We all have different perceptions about the world but those who choose ignorance over knowledge are ...
MORAKENG SEKGOKA Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.
JEFFREY FRY Security comes from Trust.
Trust comes from Faith.
Faith comes when you eliminate all fear...
BROWNELL LANDRUM Those who want to learn, listen. Those who do not want to think, speak.
DEBASISH MRIDHA M.D. The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life d...
JIMMY REID Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Ale...
JULIAN BARNES ...But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You......
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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.
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
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.
ALEXANDER POPE