For fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Alexander Pope
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE Fools "Sell Out" Where Angels Fear to Tread
DEAN CAVANAGH We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread
HENRY FORD There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to trea...
G.K. CHESTERTON Fools rush in where fools have been before.
UNKNOWN Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bu...
ANTHON ST. MAARTEN To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT It is impossible for the fools to tread the path of learned ones.
RIG VEDA 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 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 Fools rush in - and get all the best seats.
UNKNOWN Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
UNKNOWN I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greate...
KAREN HORNEY With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the ...
CATHY FREEMAN In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
P...
ALEXANDER POPE But ye gotta know where ye're just going to rush in. Ye canne just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, h...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's the fear there's going to be a mad rush for the exits in the equity market: that's what generat...
ALAN ROSE It's the fear there's going to be a mad rush for the exits in the equity market: that's what generat...
ALAN DE ROSE Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world.
R. SCOTT BAKKER Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames;
Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt
In Tw...
JAMES THOMSON (1) I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
IAN MCEWAN In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
ROBERT JORDAN It's special to block for Shaun Alexander.
MACK STRONG The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come t...
GEORGE ELIOT I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?
BROTHER ANDREW The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come t...
GEORGE ELIOT I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
DONALD TRUMP The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear ...
TACITUS The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fea...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions
ANONYMOUS People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR For all those who are afraid to shine their light, to be seen, who make themselves invisible. You ar...
EILEEN ANGLIN NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and ...
MONTY PYTHON [Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and...
GEORGE ELIOT Poverty & fear are related,for where there is poverty,there is always extreme fear.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I learned a long time ago that these so-called adults are just tall children. There’s never been a...
BOBBY W. MILLER It's rush for fraternities and it's rush for bookstores too.
ROBERT HALL The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. King S...
BIBLE "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physicia...
ETHAN ALLEN "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physici...
ETHAN ALLEN Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust
KENNETH REXROTH Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
KENNETH REXROTH For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, w...
ROBERT BENCHLEY "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"
[Ethan Allen, to his phy...
ETHAN ALLEN Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate...
H.P. LOVECRAFT It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a...
JOAN SMITH Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and sta...
STEBBY JULIONATAN Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funerea...
CHRIS BOHJALIAN I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL If we're not successful, we'll have to tread water for the next decade.
CHANCELLOR HENRY SHANNON Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, w...
ROBERT BENCHLEY All feete tread not in one shoe.
GEORGE HERBERT I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent c...
GARY SHERMAN One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
JUVENAL Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, ma...
EVAN THOMAS Ashes have no fear to burn in hell
In your heart's paradise angels dwell
Rib cage fastens ...
MUNIA KHAN Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline."
EDDIE JOHNSON The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man ...
FRANCIS BACON SR. All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We rush, rush, rush to get things done, and in the process, our lives rush past us.
Life isn't ...
LISA VERGE HIGGINS It was almost immediate that we started to see Pope Benedict items and memorabilia come onto the sit...
HANI DURZY Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER 'T would make one scratch where It does not itch, to see fools live poor to die rich
THOMAS SHADWELL One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being. I...
FERNANDO FLORES The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope is an enormous disappointment for all those who ho...
HANS KUNG I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village:
‘There are...
FRANZ KAFKA With an expression that could be mistaken for fear, Detective Duke shivered, but not of terror, more...
T.K. WARE Many of people’s communication lines tend to break down on the side where impatience is in a rush ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Where fear is present, excuses are present and Where fear is absent, excuses are absent.
LEBOGANG MARUMO Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Butcher
.. how much responsibility
does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS I take my hat off to Pope. They competed and went down fighting. We did some good things, but there'...
DOUG LIPSCOMB It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB As some to church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
ALEXANDER POPE I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured.
"Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.
CASSANDRA CLARE Angels are not supernatural beings who come from heaven knows where. Angels are human beings who con...
CHARBEL TADROS It's too cold outside for angels to fly.
ED SHEERAN Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round, w...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks o...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
MAHESH BABU Love is for fools, Christian.
E.L. JAMES With silence only as their benediction,
God's angels come
Where in the shadow of a great affli...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. YEATS My daughter would never tread on someone else's freedoms. But we don't want ours tread on, either.
JOHN MCCLAIN The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
ALEXANDER POPE Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h...
ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
ALEXANDER POPE Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE 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