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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.


Alexander Pope

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul
ALEXANDER POPE Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL 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 How vain, without the merit, is the name.
HOMER I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.
A. P. HERBERT He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
OVID Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of...
JOHN KEATS Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
BIBLE Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author w...
JOSEPH ADDISON Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
JOHN KEATS Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE A beautiful soul has no other merit, but it's existence
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER People who don't know me lower their eyes in embarrassment when the Lord's name is taken in vain in ...
SISTER PARISH One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
MARY RENAULT look for what may strike their fancy.
TERRANCE GAINER He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
BIBLE No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
JEAN TOOMER Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they ...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS We did the same thing with the pope movie. We don't really announce development. (CBS) may have gott...
ANNIE FORT A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

[Alexander's tombstone epit...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.
MENANDER The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be conside...
ALEXEI SAYLE Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to le...
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON That's going to be one more reason that a superintendent would roll their eyes and run in the other ...
BILL JACKSON Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) “I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sigh...
ANNE BRONTE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING It is a pretty poem, Mr Pope, but you must not call it Homer
RICHARD BENTLEY When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes
LORETTA LIVINGSTONE An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you wi...
HARRY CAMPBELL Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
ROMAN PAYNE Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you.
THOMAS BULFINCH This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned...
ALFRED NOYES Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel. To l...
JOHN NORRIS OF BEMERTON In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the s...
AKHENATON AKHENATON When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the s...
AKHENATON Why do you like jellyfish so much?" I asked.
"I don't know. I guess I think they're cute," she...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Jinki nazron ki khidkiyon se unki rooh ko jhaakne ki ijaazat ho, mohobbat hai mujhe har us shaks se....
HENNA SOHAIL I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charm...
ANNE BRONTë You're stiff as a rock but you roll with soul baby.
FARLEY FLEX Any way you can get it done. We have to find ways to win; it may not be pretty at times, but the bot...
DEREK JETER There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS We've gotten on a good roll here. Twenty wins is 20 wins. I think we're the best team in Kentucky. I...
ANTHONY WINCHESTER Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?
SOURCE UNKNOWN .The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms
KURT VONNEGUT, JR. .The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms
KURT VONNEGUT JR. When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, a circle of creation is completed inside u...
ANNE JONES The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that...
ARRIAN The soul might be within the eyes, but the subconscious, the matter of their behavior; that is in th...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT At the beginning of the year, I was pitching pretty decent but I wasn't getting the wins. Now, I'm g...
JOSE CONTRERAS Beauty seen in the eyes of a Beholder of Faith, can be seen as a Disease in the eyes of the Unacknow...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Go...
PAULLINA SIMONS Eternity before I met you is nothing compared with the eternity of being without you after I have di...
PRETTY In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... The lessons of prudence have charms, And slighted, may lead to distress; But the man whom benevolenc...
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him ...
JOHN NEWTON What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and...
EILEEN CADDY Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
LITTLE RICHARD It's not any longer for development. The team that wins this game is officially on a roll.
GENE NUDO Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.
GIANNA PERADA CARINI When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being. I...
FERNANDO FLORES Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
WILLIAM PENN "May the love you share with another generate energy, creating sunshine in their soul." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The eyes say many different things without having to verbally say anything at all.
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Only the bravest can sit quietly, close their eyes and look inward where they just might meet their ...
CRISTABEL MICHAELS We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman comm...
EUGENE KENNEDY I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Si...
MYLES MUNROE She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of...
JODIE B. COOPER Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Ligh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ...
NEHA KOTHARI There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... If death is all about parting with body then immortality is about being dead when alive.
AKSHMALA SHARMA If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the...
LAURENCE STERNE I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' going up. How foolish, in fact, what d...
JEREMY CALDWELL

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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.
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ALEXANDER POPE But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
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ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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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.
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ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
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ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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With his own ...
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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.
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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.
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ALEXANDER POPE Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
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ALEXANDER POPE From pride, from pride, our very reas
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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.
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ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing;
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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 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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