Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
Alexander Pope
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To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON We have a wonderful blank canvas on which to draw a plan.
NEIL FRAZEE A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep
W.H. AUDEN It is necessary to draw up a plan concerning your goals and your calling
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is my hope that Pope Francis realizes his time is better spent focusing on matters like religious...
PAUL GOSAR I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. T...
BILL HICKS We talk about everything, like nutrition. He keeps a log of all his workouts. It's a father-son bond...
BOB PAZITNEY I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
YAYOI KUSAMA Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Butcher
.. how much responsibility
does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a ma...
ALEXANDER POPE I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
DONALD TRUMP I was told he was stabbed a number of times through the chest and then his body was wrapped in a car...
IAN ROBERTS And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby ha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
DONATELLA VERSACE The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
HELEN ROWLAND Draw up a learning plan with specific goals and objectives and time-frame for achievement
SUNDAY ADELAJA You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS Yeah, it looked like it was a good pitch. He hit his spot and obviously you think the catcher is goi...
VERNON WELLS Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an ex...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
HELEN ROWLAND It went from his mom supervising him to Jacob forming his own ideas about nutrition.
LAUREN BRIGHTWELL I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop...
MARTIN LUTHER He (Austin) just missed his spot and it got out over the plate. With a big kid like that, he (Jimene...
JOE DURANT He's kind of a prankster in the meeting room. He might come in (the meeting room) and draw up someth...
BRICK HALEY It was almost immediate that we started to see Pope Benedict items and memorabilia come onto the sit...
HANI DURZY David missed his spot on a couple of occasions, ... and we were able to take advantage of them.
JOE TORRE And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned w...
BIBLE Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN There is a stronger emphasis on good nutrition,
BARRY BREEN I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.
HARUKI MURAKAMI I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne W...
KATIE MCGRATH Draw near to God, so the ways of our hearts.... look more like his.
JAIME LYNNE DILLON Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachmen...
THOMAS JEFFERSON He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original...
BILLE AUGUST My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of...
AGA KHAN IV And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined...
VINCENT NICHOLS Benevolent scholars propagate knowledge.
SAM VEDA ....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I...
PAULLINA SIMONS Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many ...
EUGENE KENNEDY It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings...
MARTIN BUBER Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.
PAWAN MISHRA You will rot in any place you feel you do not belong to!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN They propagate Chinese communist ideology and incite hatred.
ELAINE XIE A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a wor...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Relationship is like a CAR.
When ignited, needs constant fuel to maintain the ignition.
If not re-fu...
PANCHATAPA GOSWAMI We need schools to stand on the side of parents who want to teach good nutrition, not on the side of...
GARY RUSKIN [Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB Mr. Tools is now 85 days out and is doing extremely well, ... He's eating on his own, his nutrition ...
LAMAN GRAY I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child
PABLO PICASSO I love full on, like 65 mph in a handicapped parking spot.
DARK JAR TIN ZOO It was poor tackling. We had guys on the spot to make a play. It was a good run on his part.
CLINT INGRAM Don't just propagate, elevate yourself.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original...
BILLE AUGUST 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 The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown o...
TYLER FLORENCE I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.
MADONNA It is probably like an artist. They see in their head what they want to draw, and they draw it. It i...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN Hold on to me," Alec said, and Magnus gave him the sort of smile that made Alec feel like someone ha...
CASSANDRA CLARE He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it aroun...
HARRY CREWS Every poet who aspires to celebrity strives to approach the perfection of Pope and the sweetness of ...
DAVID HUMPHREYS It's satisfying that a permanent memorial is here, that signifies the loneliness of the place. It's ...
JOHN REILLY If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
THOMAS GRAY Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means...
POPE PAUL VI I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hy...
MATT CAMERON The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His pro...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakesp...
DANIEL HANNAN And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexan...
BIBLE I believe we can make these leases and still make good on our goal. If we come in less, this would b...
ALAN WARD We first have to wait for the engineers to draw up a detailed plan. This will most likely take a cou...
JOSEPH KELLY We are doing pretty good overall. We definitely need to continue to work on our fifth runner on vars...
DAYL WOOD As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had desig...
ERIC HILL We've got the pope on our side.
JASON GRILLI I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian thir...
MURIEL SPARK He had a better winter workout than his spring. He'll have to earn that spot right up to the first g...
BRONCO MENDENHALL The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.
MORARJI DESAI In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
MADELEINE L’ENGLE Is there any spot on his body that isn’t hard? Tonsils? Kidneys? Oh! His tongue... silky little de...
MIMI JEAN PAMFILOFF If the pulpit begins to propagate a faulty or erroneous value system, it ends up captivating the who...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.
JACKIE EVANCHO If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
THOMAS GRAY We didn't run it precisely like we could draw it on the board, but certainly we did enough, and he w...
JOHN BRADY Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from...
JARON LANIER Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar ge...
P.T. BARNUM A CISO's job is to streamline, harmonize and propagate cybersecurity and cyber hygiene throughout th...
JAMES SCOTT How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being. I...
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More Alexander Pope
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 The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
ALEXANDER POPE Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
ALEXANDER POPE Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
ALEXANDER POPE Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
ALEXANDER POPE Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
ALEXANDER POPE From pride, from pride, our very reas
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPE An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPE All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPE For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Die and endow a college or a cat.
ALEXANDER POPE But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heav...
ALEXANDER POPE Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
ALEXANDER POPE True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPE Wit is the lowest form of humor.
ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Placed on this...
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow d...
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There sha...
ALEXANDER POPE Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
ALEXANDER POPE In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
ALEXANDER POPE You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
ALEXANDER POPE Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
ALEXANDER POPE Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
ALEXANDER POPE Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
ALEXANDER POPE True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
ALEXANDER POPE When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
ALEXANDER POPE I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
ALEXANDER POPE Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
ALEXANDER POPE Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
ALEXANDER POPE What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
ALEXANDER POPE I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
ALEXANDER POPE Health consists with temperance alone.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part; there all honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE An honest man's the noblest work of God.
ALEXANDER POPE Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
ALEXANDER POPE For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
ALEXANDER POPE And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
ALEXANDER POPE We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; ALEXANDER POPE By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
ALEXANDER POPE To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged th...
ALEXANDER POPE Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more ...
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
ALEXANDER POPE Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
ALEXANDER POPE Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
ALEXANDER POPE Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
ALEXANDER POPE Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
ALEXANDER POPE Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
ALEXANDER POPE The starving chemist in his golden views
Supremely blest.
ALEXANDER POPE Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand,
And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE In cold December fragrant chaplets blow,
And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
ALEXANDER POPE The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
ALEXANDER POPE Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame,
Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n,
Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;
But such...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
ALEXANDER POPE Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE The blest to-day is as completely so,
As who began a thousand years ago.
ALEXANDER POPE Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
ALEXANDER POPE Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,
With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
ALEXANDER POPE Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye...
ALEXANDER POPE Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps,
And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
ALEXANDER POPE Accept a miracle; instead of wit,--
See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
P...
ALEXANDER POPE A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
ALEXANDER POPE Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme,
The air-built castle, and the golden dream,
...
ALEXANDER POPE In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs,
What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
ALEXANDER POPE See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep,
And all the western world believe and sleep.
ALEXANDER POPE Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about
anything, and that all the pains that ...
ALEXANDER POPE Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE Alas! the small discredit of a bribe
Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
ALEXANDER POPE Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe,
That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
ALEXANDER POPE And soften'd sounds along the waters die:
Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
ALEXANDER POPE Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
ALEXANDER POPE Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death,
Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
ALEXANDER POPE I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
ALEXANDER POPE The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
ALEXANDER POPE Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But, as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where o...
ALEXANDER POPE Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess,
Some are and must be greater than the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be
disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE At length corruption, like a general flood
(So long by watchful ministers withstood),
Shall de...
ALEXANDER POPE You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.
ALEXANDER POPE Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
ALEXANDER POPE Heaven forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on othe...
ALEXANDER POPE