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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.


Alexander Pope

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REBECCA SOLNIT 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 I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE 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 He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ...
MICHAEL NOVAK It just shows we take a lot of pride in our defense. That's something we've been working at all year...
BRITTANY WILKINS The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VOLTAIRE She's got a great sense of humor. And, she's got a great sense of pride. She always wants to do for ...
MARGARET WILLIAMS We take great pride in the writing that our students do.
MALCOLM HILL These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a lit...
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Butcher .. how much responsibility does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perh...
HENRY ROLLINS We take pride in bringing those home every year.
DAN BEARDSLEE I take great offense at that, ... I know lots of people whose properties my signs are on who have ne...
EDWARD JACKSON I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willi...
JOHN LASSETER Better own a trifle than want a great deal.
IRISH PROVERB It's going to be interesting. They have a great team. Some great weapons on offense and their defens...
AL WALLACE Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.
CHRISTOPHER DODD My major role on this team is defense. I take great pride in doing that job.
BILLY HAGUE Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
THOMAS ADAMS She shows up every time. I was impressed again. It's always nerve-wracking, even at short odds.
JAMES CASSIDY My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.
JERRY LEWIS Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pr...
NATE RUESS I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
DONALD TRUMP I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by t...
TONY HAWK I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.
BONNIE HUNT We pride ourselves on our defense, and it kept us in the game. Our offense just wasn't going. They h...
BRAD HOOVER Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (1640).
THOMAS ADAMS We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take prid...
ASHLEY ALLEN Kevin's pretty fired up. I think we all look forward to the challenge of trying to make this offense...
CHAD PENNINGTON I know he used the term 'fast and furious' a lot, but that's really the way we approached the game o...
ORLANDO PACE I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian thir...
MURIEL SPARK With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all...
JOHN KEATS It shows that underlying inflation is still tame and only slowly edging up. That means the Fed can t...
JIM O'SULLIVAN China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride i...
EVAN OSNOS Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
DWIGHT L. MOODY I don't take any pride in this news at all,
JOEL HEFLEY It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we...
CHUCK DARBY When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little...
NATALIE PORTMAN There's no question we're going to have to do a good job against Alexander. He's the guy that makes ...
JAMES FARRIOR It's not like we're happy that they haven't had that kind of success, or that we're glad they haven'...
JOE NASH Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which no...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL To be a great anvil, you must take your hammering with pride, gusto, and style
ANDY SOLTIS We have got to take care of the little things and protect the ball on offense. We lost a huge opport...
BILL TIERNEY Every time we'd make any kind of run at them, they always had an answer for them. That just shows wh...
JEFF SCHAFER We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up.
ALI FAZAL The emotion that I feel most is pride, ... My sense is that's the way the fans here in Mexico feel. ...
PAUL TAGLIABUE We perked up a little bit. We played our zone offense a little better, and our defense always kicks ...
BOB CIMMINO We welcome them. I think it's a great situation, the fact that we can at least help these families h...
DEAN COLBERT Rhett's definitely a great quarterback. Nothing to take away from him, but at this time, they though...
PAUL THOMPSON I often think it's comical / How Nature always does contrive / That every boy and every gal, / That'...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexande...
ALEX SPANOS I can live in at the Leela's or the road side, I am still John Alexander Tristram
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar,...
SUSANNA MOODIE A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.
ROBIN HOBB Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
NICHOLAS SPARKS What happened (against Boise State) shows a lot. The way we came back and the way the offense marche...
TRENT BRAY In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
JOHN RUSKIN As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was readi...
ALLEN COVERT We take so much pride (in blocking kicks), I just think last year we got a little complacent,
ANDY GRAY I think the entire offense is really trying to take our game to the next level. Every position, ever...
STEVE HUTCHINSON When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for...
HENRY HAZLITT I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop...
MARTIN LUTHER Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conqu...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always livi...
NORMAN MAILER Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always li...
NORMAN MAILER if it’s within your power to give another person great joy at little or no expense to yourself— ...
PENNY REID There's always the Aha! or wild moment at every party.
KATHY KING I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER Many of our core items are made fresh. Our chicken, eggplant and veal parmesan are all made fresh da...
CHRISTIAN COUGHLIN I kick myself a little bit because I'm always worried. I'm trying to put my insecurities away in the...
CHRISTOPHER ATKINS Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in...
GARY ACKERMAN The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope is an enormous disappointment for all those who ho...
HANS KUNG All Virginians can take pride in that total.
DONNA VANCLEAVE With Gulf Coast, we always know every game we'll have to do a great job on the backboard, a great jo...
SCOTT MCMILLIN When I am not recording, I do live shows or am at home catching up on shows which I regularly watch....
SHREYA GHOSHAL We didn't play with pride. Pride is what you need right now. But all the little things (mistakes) ar...
ALEX BROOKS I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their pho...
CHRISSY TEIGEN I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End ...
PATRICK MACNEE A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

[Alexander's tombstone epit...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. - John Ruskin,
JOHN RUSKIN We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're...
FELICITY KENDAL Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take...
RICHARD ATTIAS The only thing is "we are humans" and the best thing is "humans were born to make mistakes" .. so ch...
NEHA KOTHARI In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fac...
GEOFFREY FISHER We play physical. We take pride in not giving up many points. We expect great things for this year.
JOE KIRK

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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 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 Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on othe...
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