An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
Alexander Pope
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It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstina...
MICHAEL FARADAY If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.
ASKHARI JOHNSON HODARI All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious...
JOHN MORLEY Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious...
JOHN VISCOUNT MORLEY The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN 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 Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE He is not inclined to hold back.
CHARLES O. JONES This decision does not require shareholder approval. The fund's board of directors can simply decide...
GREGG WOLPER The FA Cup decision on where they will hold the final does not have any direct financial implication...
MATHEW CHANDLER A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
PLATO The lesson like the nail, does not hold until driven deeply.
JIM GENOVESE To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unf...
QUINTUS FABIUS MAXIMUS Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, ...
JOHN STUART MILL We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR. 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 It's not unusual. We have no authority to hold them if they can make the bail.
ALLEN MOORE Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. Yo...
LYNN MESSINA Does this stadium hold great memories? Yes,
MIKE SHANNON A government that does not have a majority in parliament does not really hold power and that should ...
JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew
RICK PERLSTEIN We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get m...
KEVIN TOWERS We?re not going to hold our heads down because it?s a long season. We still have a lot of work to do...
RICHARD SEYMOUR If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Those comments were made some 12 or 13 years ago. All of us may hold opinions which are objectionabl...
INAYAT BUNGLAWALA What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE You can tell a lot about a person, by what keys they hold on their key ring.
ERIC JOHNSON I anticipated they would be harsh but I don't hold it against them.
GUY RITCHIE (Chaplains will) hold Bible studies and worship services (if they are a Christian chaplains). They h...
MACK GRIFFITH We're just on hold until 11:30.
CHRIS WALKER If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. ...
TONI MORRISON The Canada we see in this report does not reflect the one we hold in our hearts,
DAVID SUZUKI No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follo...
JOHN STUART MILL I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE The person who needed the supplies down there should be able to get them now, and hopefully that wil...
JOHN HALL You can't just hold people who don't have any direct responsibility and hold them just as hostages.
ZVI RISH Let them hold the elections according to the electoral law they deem suitable, but we will not parti...
WALID JUMBLATT Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure ...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON Don't let them hold you hostage.
LANNEAU SIEGLING It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it
PAUL JOHNSON Historically, a blanket hold does not necessarily accomplish the goal [or goals] set out for it when...
ERIC UELAND She has consolidated her hold on power, but it does not mean that she has crushed the opposition.
EARL PARRENO New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
COLSON WHITEHEAD We want to hold exploratory talks, but these are not coalition negotiations.
CLAUDIA ROTH To find that something could slip through, that possibly would not hold up to the test for which it ...
TOM KENNEDY We might hold him back and just have him throw on the side. But we're not there yet.
MIKE HARGROVE 2-in-1 is a bullshit term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That's why 2 was created.
MITCH HEDBERG Not everyone has heard my name I want it to be a house hold name.
MANDY MOORE Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no insti...
KAREL CAPEK The only thing wrong with Southern Baptists was they didn't hold them underwater long enough.
KINKY FRIEDMAN What thief does not fight to hold what he has?"
"One that has something better," said Loc...
SCOTT LYNCH An innovator is a person who does not follow rules. He simply makes them instead.
HARESH SIPPY We invited you to cover an event, not to hold a press conference.
HELAINE KLASKY We wanted to hold them to 45.
JAHSHA BLUNTT We know the weapons they have on offence. To be able to hold them to not many points, we feel proud ...
BRIAN KELLY It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Accountability teaches us lessons, and it protects us. This plea does not hold (Daniel Robbins) acco...
DAN HARRIS If you believe Might is Right, it follows that whoever cannot hold their ground does not deserve to ...
JAMES D. SASS Problems had come not to destroy you, but to build you up.
Hold strong, and tomorrow become a better...
BRADLEY B. DALINA They might hold a particular appeal to baby boomers who want a high-touch relationship, where they c...
DAN CASSIDY But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Propositi...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA The adolescent brain can only fleetingly hold onto the concept of other person.
TERENCE T. GORSKI They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in I...
MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your tru...
MIKE NORTON If you remain ‘insincere’ to one person, then that person will hold you back from going to moksh...
DADA BHAGWAN Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Butcher
.. how much responsibility
does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS If a person has a mining claim, they hold a bit of responsibility for keeping their mining claim saf...
GARY ROWELL I thought I had pretty good relations with them, but they said, 'We're not giving you any names. You...
DEREK PARRA We want everything so if hearings aren't justified, we won't hold them, ... If they are, we will.
ORRIN HATCH In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
HEATH LEDGER We can hold our breath longer than we can be around others and not judge them
ABID HUSSAIN MALIK Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as ...
CECELIA AHERN A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one'...
OSCAR WILDE Our goal is always to hold the other team to 15 points or less. To hold them to three is really unbe...
MICKEY ANDREWS It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of th...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Me being a compassionate person, I would never hold any grudges against my ex.
AMBER ROSE We are an obstinate bunch.
JEFFREY MOUNT Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a ma...
ALEXANDER POPE All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and...
P. J. O'ROURKE Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together. -Unknown.
UNKNOWN And we seek to hold them as suspected terrorists,
JOHN ASHCROFT It's an event high schools don't normally hold.
CARLO PRANDINI Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if o...
ED GREENWOOD Certainly, it is not enough just to hold an election. How that election unfolds is very important. W...
SEAN MCCORMACK If you hold that bike, and do not let go, it's impossible to put you in a car.
BOB STUBER Absorb what is said as you read but endeavor not to hold on to it or think about it.
BARRY LONG To go up against the guys we've faced lately and hold our own, that's not too bad. We've gone throug...
JOE RANDA We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.
WILL MORGAN We are not going to hold back, we want to win the title as quickly as possible.
VICTOR VALDES I would like to strengthen defensively. We are very light there but I am not going to hold my breath...
STEVE BRUCE You have proved yourself as an unqualified person by showing loyalty to the ruling alliance and any ...
DR KAMAL HOSSAIN I don't hold grudges.
IAN MCEWAN I can't hold a tune at all.
ROBERT STIGWOOD
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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 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 Heaven forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on othe...
ALEXANDER POPE