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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.


Alexander Pope

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be,
ALEXANDER POPE I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
C. JOYBELL C. The person is a resume, not what's on a piece of paper. Whoever gives advice about resumes in co...
MICKEY DREXLER Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Man is whoever he thinks he is, within his own boundaries.
DUDLEY DAVIDSON-JARRETT What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastri...
RUMI Not everyone thinks the way you think, knows the things you know, believesthe things you believe, no...
ARTHUR FORMAN In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that...
ARRIAN He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
BIBLE We are pleased to have delivered this order to El.Ma as it is the next step in our collaboration. We...
PETER NOR Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall...
HENRY FIELDING To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE If anyone thinks he has faith and yet is indifferent towards this possession, is neither cold nor ho...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
MOSES You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
BIBLE And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow...
BIBLE Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, no...
BIBLE All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT The way of love;Love is hard to forecast nor define.The shape,nor size,nor tribe,nor qualification o...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICH Although, regretfully, I'm not expecting a miracle. Nor do I believe that the Holy Father thinks tha...
ELIZARDO SANCHEZ I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I o...
RICHARD HOVEY A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishe...
JASON ZEBEHAZY And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
BIBLE Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot...
MAO TSE-TUNG You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11
BIBLE Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
SEPP BLATTER He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all shall want some.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeli...
SIR MARTIN ARCHER SHEE Toil shall not afflict them in it, nor shall they be ever ejected from it.
QURAN I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we...
CHUCK DARBY The truth shall never be unique nor will it be soundly logic.
MARIANA FULGER Unlike all other forms of lute or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neit...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN A man is literally what he thinks
JAMES ALLEN One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.
SUZANNE COLLINS The pilgrimage is (performed in) the well-known months; so whoever determines the performance of the...
QURAN I’m not now, nor shall I ever be, any man’s arm candy.
J.J. MCAVOY A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Surely your enemy is the one who shall be without posterity, / Say: O unbelievers! / I do not serve ...
QURAN Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A man ought to do what he thinks is right
JOHN WAYNE We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
BIBLE This is not an administration, after all, that cares much for what the rest of the world thinks, nor...
JEFFREY SIMPSON Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.
HENRY WALDORF FRANCIS Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide
HENRY WALDORF FRANCIS A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.
GEORGE HERBERT A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi...
GEORGE WILL A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi...
GEORGE F. WILL The oldest hath borne most: we that are young,Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE I am very reluctant to see internal stuff revealed except where there is some clear public reason fo...
JEFFERSON POWELL Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, no...
JANE AUSTEN Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at a...
BIBLE We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despis...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confo...
BIBLE Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but tru...
FRANCIS BACON It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
GEORGES DUHAMEL It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
GEORGE DUHAMEL The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.
BYRON KATIE Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka&...
CYNTHIA OZICK A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always
MARK TWAIN A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks abou...
GEORGE WILL No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the hi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the m...
HENRY GEORGE The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure...
OMAR KHAYYáM Whoever goes aright, for his own soul does he go aright; and whoever goes astray, to its detriment o...
QURAN There is no reason to feel lost, for: Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, No birth, identit...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.
LILLIE LANGTRY Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN A man is what he thinks about all day long.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, Nor should he.
FEMALE IMAGINATION You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
EURIPIDES In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though...
ALBERT CAMUS He has only forbidden you what dies of itself, and blood, and flesh of swine, and that over which an...
QURAN Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.
CHINA MIéVILLE Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the...
HENRY GEORGE All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to fre...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
PETER HOOK She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'"
"He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
HILARY MANTEL The fool thinks he is wise and the wise thinks he is not a fool.
VIKRANT PARSAI Technology is either beloved or beleaguered, if you've noticed over the last several years. It's jus...
LINDA DUESSEL Whoever thinks the match against DR Congo is easy is mistaken. All the teams that qualified to the s...
HASSAN SHEHATA Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outl...
EUDORA WELTY

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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