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And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
ALEXANDER POPE
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all...
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Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
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Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
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Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
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The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
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The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken.
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All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
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Ah,” Sean said, smothering a laugh. “The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I’d seen that...
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Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
And I know things are...screwed up between us. I know that. Even if you tell me you'd rather hump a ...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
Don't ever reject a small
when you can't take it all.
TOBA BETA
In the end, the truth will prevail. Good and evil keep at war.
Whichever wins, future will beli...
TOBA BETA
People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what??
(I'm stupi...
DEYTH BANGER
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
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All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And...
BRANDON SANDERSON
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
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It is expression that leads to modification. It is keeping it all inside that leads to frustration. ...
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He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
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The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope is an enormous disappointment for all those who ho...
HANS KUNG
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE
What do you do if you've got everything?
There's only one thing you can do. More.
PETE WATERMAN
You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN
It all added up to something that's making me feel proud,
ROBBIE ROBERTSON
One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
JUVENAL
I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING
If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me . . .
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I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS
It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and e...
GEORGES SIMENON
And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
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There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by t...
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There have been a number of people who have said, 'We've heard it all before,'?
MICHAEL CHAPMAN
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something e...
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something eve...
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We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselv...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES
People who get in trouble are those who try something new and go at it full throttle.
DON HARRIS
Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
All people who made it at one time thought they could never make it.
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It's a tribute to the young lady who told her mother and the mother who told the principal. We follo...
SARA STERN
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
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Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallnes...
CONNIE ROSE PORTER
I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act.
JACK CALDWELL
We were a band who made it very, very big. That's all.
JOHN LENNON
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
DOCTOR WHO
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
DOCTOR WHO
Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.
DOCTOR WHO
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
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I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ...
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I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!
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According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly
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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
DR. WHO
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to f...
DOCTOR WHO
Good place to put things - cellars.
DOCTOR WHO
Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
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When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid....
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I'm not wild about computers myself, but they are a tool. If you have a tool, it's stupid not to use...
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There are worlds out there where the skies are burning, where the seas asleep, and the rivers dream....
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Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
DOCTOR WHO
Resistance is useless.
DOCTOR WHO
The beauty of cinema is it's something that can be made locally and consumed the world over,
DOCTOR WHO
I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.
DOCTOR WHO
Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.
BETTY WHO
See, it's packing up already!
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Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell...
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I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I ...
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I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas...
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To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I wa...
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My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be wor...
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There's the people and friends who want to give you grief about it, but I've heard all positive thin...
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When thinking about what to do next with your life, don’t ask yourself what you would succeed at, ...
CLIFFORD COHEN
There's nothing new. I've heard it all three or four times before.
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Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll kee...
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We made it a ball game and I told them that it would come down to who executes better in the end.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in t...
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I told them, 'Sit down, because I've heard you brutalize a guy who won 300 games and three national ...
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For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not abo...
GILLIAN FLYNN
When you think that you have it all, think again!
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The individuals who we have all seen and heard about, through the media and otherwise, who are suffe...
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He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he ...
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A Man Who Became Pope
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sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it ...
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All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and ...
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He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small; / For the dear God who loveth us...
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She told me to find a girl worth fighting for. The one that doesn’t come easy.
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Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almo...
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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolu...
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
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Passions are the gales of life.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Die and endow a college or a cat.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
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Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
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Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
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Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
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Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
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No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
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One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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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...
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