And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Alexander Pope
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And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;
A...
ALEXANDER POPE All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.
GEORGE HERBERT Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar fr...
C.J. MILBRANDT One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN You Cannot Fly Like An Eagle If You Wont Stretch Your Wings!
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' w...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; t...
PATRICIA CHRISTIAN PUNCHES Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame; On eagles' wi...
STEPHEN HARVEY There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings...
WILLIAM HARVEY There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wing...
WILLIAM HARVEY And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eag...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like ...
ELLEN HOPKINS There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles w...
WILLIAM HARVEY Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and ho...
RONALD MCNAIR It is in the stormiest skies that eagles find their true calling.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Little we heed the tempest drear,
While music, mirth, and social cheer,
Speed on their wings t...
UNKNOWN Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
CHARLES PRESTWICH SCOTT Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
E. F. SCHUMACHER The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold...
LORD BYRON Wings are of many kinds. Butterfly's wings, vulture's wings, eagle-wings, spread wings of white swan...
MUNIA KHAN Grandmother, family-proud and so of house, with hob black-leaded, glistening like a raven's wings an...
BRIAN HARRIS Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (During a gig on their US tour) We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagl...
SID VICIOUS Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one...
BIBLE Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they were not divided...
BIBLE Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their bell...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.
LIU YANG However, despite this, the Pope managed to stir their enthusiasm.
MARCO POLITI And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco fla...
DONNA LEON And a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap, / Worthy of washing the hands of the Pope.
REV. R. H. BARHAM Beating the Eagles is still beating the Eagles.
WILL ALLEN We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE They've cut out their tongues and
the larks can no longer sing
the birds can no longer fly
they've c...
O ANNA NIEMUS We had visions of untamed wilderness, soaring bald eagles and humpback whales flapping their tails i...
ERON GARCIA We believe in the Eagles.
CHAD LEWIS If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it wo...
RICHARD KADREY If fund managers apportion just a little of their funds into gold, the price goes up by quite a bit.
ERMIN SIOW No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and ...
BIBLE We've had babies wave. ... We've had babies smile. We've had babies suck their thumb. If they've had...
KAY FROST I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with ...
MORT WALKER The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB And maybe... you are a little fat bear cub with no wings, and no feathers.
ELSE HOLMELUND MINARIK We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
WAYNE CALLOWAY So, in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
Said, when he saw...
AESCHYLUS King of the peak and glacier,
King of the cold, white scalps,
He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
JOHN MILTON He clasps the crag with hooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens?
If all the world were falcons, what of that?
The ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling
With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed
...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY My free drift
Halts not particularly, but moves itself
In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malic...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Last night the very gods showed me a vision--
I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a feather of...
EDMUND WALLER The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby,
Knowing tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tho' he inherit
Not the pride, nor ample pinion,
That the Theban eagle bear,
Sailing wit...
THOMAS GRAY So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
V...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.
BIBLE The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Bird of the broad and sweeping wing,
Thy home is high in heaven,
Where wide the storms their b...
JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,
See...
THOMAS MOORE Lone eagles, soaring in the clouds, fly with silent, peaceful poise,While turkeys, in their earth-bo...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their...
STEPHEN KINZER their heart grew cold
they let their wings down
SAPPHO Traditionally, natives did not put wings on their totem poles, but many people want wings on them.
MARGARET BENSON [Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.
JOHN MUIR There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their pho...
CHRISSY TEIGEN I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.ā
āIām in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames;
Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt
In Tw...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry th...
JULIE ANDREWS These critical clues were puncture marks in the base of the eye sockets of primates, made when the e...
DR LEE BERGER Remember, those that wait upon the Lord will rise up with wings like eagles, and they will run and n...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Bald eagles do not exist anywhere else on the planet. Bald eagles are our eagles. Nobody else can cl...
JACQUES NUZZO Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo
PAUL KRASSNER When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
BIBLE The euro was a little weaker today, so that took gold a little lower.
BILLY FLAHIVE They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the c...
ARRIAN Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Butcher
.. how much responsibility
does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the be...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian thir...
MURIEL SPARK Eagles prefer colder temperatures. So do the cows. When it gets colder it will force more eagles dow...
JAMES SETTELMEYER As some to church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
ALEXANDER POPE Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. Th...
KATE THOMPSON True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someone's...
ANDREA JUNG 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.
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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