Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true,
But are not critics to their judgment, too?


Alexander Pope

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'Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.
JOHN BROWN (1)
Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.
JEFFREY ROBINSON
Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
Inside Critics

The critical voices in our own heads are far more vicious than what we mig...
S.A.R.K.
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too ...
THOMAS GRAY
Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness to...
THOMAS GRAY
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,
That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;
Their ...
ANNE BRADSTREET
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
True Devdas are Authors
SANTOSH AVVANNAVAR
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impos...
JAMES PAYN
Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean.
MOSLIH EDDIN (AL DIN) SAADI (SADI)
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
FRANK BLACK
Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT
Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient...
BENJAMIN RUSH
'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and c...
J.K. ROWLING
It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe...
STEPHEN KING
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS
Tis the night—the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE
What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
jesus died for everyone, not just straight people
JAIMEE CALEY
Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m...
RAINBOW ROWELL
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen pr...
BEBE NEUWIRTH
Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and consi...
LEE CHILD
I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in t...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
I laugh at people who think their spontaneous, yet plan their spontaneous moments.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.
DEYTH BANGER
To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you...

"Dexter: You seem uncertain. I...
DEYTH BANGER
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Ti...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
Many live by their wits but few by their wit
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite...
OSCAR WILDE
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite...
OSCAR WILDE
The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded t...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
When your critics stop their marathon criticisms of you, their sudden silences are roaring approvals...
PETER SAYSOMPHANE
Critics are important. They give us the reasons, knowingly or unknowingly, not to fall, slumber or d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
ZHUANGZI
Those who realize their folly are not true fools
CHUANG TZU
But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish th...
MATT RUFF
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their charact...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bar...
VERA NAZARIAN
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own ...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA
I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to w...
AARON RODGERS
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
It is so easy to stand on the sidelines and pass judgment on each other, but until & unless we've wa...
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If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefu...
TERENA SCOTT
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ;
Su...
ALEXANDER POPE
But where do you live mostly now?"
With the lost boys."
Who are they?"
They are the c...
J.M. BARRIE
The real value of intellectuals is not just the value of their intellect but the impact. The distinc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
FRANCIS BACON
[Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST
Life is not about who you know, but rather about who knows you & what you stand for.

AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN
Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Not all authors actually meet their deadlines. She did.
ASYA MUCHNICK
People should be interested in books, not their authors.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
We all have a duty to define who we are
SOTONYE ANGA
Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with pride
For they are the players of harmony.
KAMAND KOJOURI
It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited t...
A.J. DARKHOLME
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steal...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steal...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If everyone knows their roles in the organisation, do their best in their role, then success is defi...
ZENG HAN JUN
In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm...
OSCAR GOODMAN
Don't think that this people are stupid, probably you have caught one, but you didn't finish your wo...
DEYTH BANGER
Search and find out what you are meant to do in this life, when you find it, do it
SOTONYE ANGA
None of my players are on full scholarships. Not a one. We had to give partial scholarships. But I t...
BOBBY POSS
The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER
...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... ...
JEAN-FRANçOIS LYOTARD
To be sociable is a risky thing—even fatal—because it means being in contact with people, most o...
PAUL HOFFMAN
However, despite this, the Pope managed to stir their enthusiasm.
MARCO POLITI
It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on thei...
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER
'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their p...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Be true to yourself & your feelings.They will never let you down.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Be true to yourself & take responsibility of your action.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Respect your own self being.Don’t compromise by living someone else life.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Being true to self is better than being liar to impress & influence other.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Being true to self is the biggest accomplishment.You are born original, remain original by virtue of...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
When you are true to yourself, you are completely honest with what you feel, deeply value, and desir...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Be true to yourself. Being true to yourself is most effective way to make you proud of yourself.Make...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Pay attention to your deeper senses and feelings, and by cultivating greater awareness in your life,...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Inculcate virtue of being true to self.Being true to self will arm you with high self esteem & keep ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
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Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
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Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
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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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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
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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."
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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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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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
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Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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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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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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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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In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
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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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In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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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.
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.
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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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From pride, from pride, our very reas
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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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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But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heav...
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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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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Placed on this...
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A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow d...
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A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There sha...
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
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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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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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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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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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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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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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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.
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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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Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged th...
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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more ...
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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy...
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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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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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
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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!
ALEXANDER POPE
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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Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the d...
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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.
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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.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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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?
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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.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
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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.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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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.
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For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
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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...
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
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