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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.


Alexander Pope

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the firs...
ALEXANDER POPE In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:
Be no...
ALEXANDER POPE Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at n...
SIMON MAINWARING He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
AESCHYLUS To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is go...
FRIEDRICH H. JACOBI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
MARY RENAULT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
STEVE YZERMAN The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
PABLO CASALS When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
CRAIG BRUCE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the firs...
SAM YAGAN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.
RICHARD J. DALEY Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
ROMAN PAYNE Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we...
NICHOLAS SPARKS La vida era como una canción.
En el comienzo, hay misterio, al final, hay una confirmación, ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS شعر آخر

می توانم امشب غمناک ترین سطرها را بنویسم PABLO NERUDA A joy as intense as pain
NICHOLAS SPARKS If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
DONALD TRUMP The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
KARL LAGERFELD But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.
CLAIRE FORLANI The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
KINKY FRIEDMAN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is th...
JEAN KERR Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.
ROBERT BROWNING Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN But here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take ...
ROBERT SARAH By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blok...
SHANE WARNE We all have an old house because of the things we have done in the past.We also have ghosts haunting...
GARY F EVANS... The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
ADAM DEREK SCOTT Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
AYRTON SENNA When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
FREDDY FENDER Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLIN but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
SABRINA CARPENTER The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
ED WEEKS The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
FRED ALLEN Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

[Alexander's tombstone epit...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM How to change the world:
• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
GERMANY KENT Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best.
M. LINCOLN SCHUSTER We're not perfect, but we want to do the right thing.
CHARLIE BELL Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kenne...
EVEL KNIEVEL When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
GEORGE WASHINGTON To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The Worst thing you can do to someone is it to pity on them...
KEERTHI RADHAKRISHNA JALIGAM I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
CATULLUS The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
LANDON LIBOIRON The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
GEORGE MACDONALD The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.
MILLARD DREXLER The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.
MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 blac...
CHUCK CLOSE This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you'r...
KAMALA HARRIS By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signale...
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ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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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.
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ALEXANDER POPE Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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ALEXANDER POPE Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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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,
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ALEXANDER POPE Die and endow a college or a cat.
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ALEXANDER POPE Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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ALEXANDER POPE In lazy apathy let stoics boast
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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.
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To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
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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...
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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?
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ALEXANDER POPE Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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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...
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ALEXANDER POPE Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
ALEXANDER POPE Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
ALEXANDER POPE And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
ALEXANDER POPE Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
ALEXANDER POPE Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
ALEXANDER POPE I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
ALEXANDER POPE The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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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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