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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.


Alexander Pope

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GROVER CLEVELAND All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
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APRIL MASINI All Florida votes are equal, your honor, and no vote is more equal than another.
FRANK MYERS There is no honor in cruelty.
JOCELYN MURRAY If you honor your parents, your children will honor you.
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RUSSIAN PROVERB You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That'...
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DAVID KLEIN That's a badge of honor for our coaching staff. From six minutes on, I thought we played well defens...
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THOMAS E. LAWRENCE There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
ANN LANDERS It's part of our code of honor.
ANDREW BROOKE In Your Honor
FOO FIGHTERS The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.
JAMES SHIRLEY My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.
NADIA MCCAFFREY We honor your grace, your own courage and, above all, the great love that you gave your husband.
DICK CHENEY To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
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MERCEDES LACKEY Create boundaries. Honor your limits. Say no. Take a break. Let go. Stay grounded. Nurture your body...
ALETHEIA LUNA A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest t...
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GROVER CLEVELAND Defeat held no honor.
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MICHAEL MOORE Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts...
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HONOR BLACKMAN You have to defend your honor. And your family.
SUZANNE VEGA America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history...
RICK SANTORUM Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.
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CHARLES LEE Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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WILLIAM ARNOT This is an honor for the state as well.
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WOODROW WILSON Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI Thank you very much, your honor,
COURTNEY LOVE You keep your word, you keep your honor
CHRIS MACHADO Clear your energy, honor your rhythm, live your vision
GEORGE DENSLOW Chins without beards deserve no honor.
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GILBERT ARENAS There is honor among thieves.
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KILROY J. OLDSTER It's a great honor to be part of this relief operation.
GHULAM RASOOL All is lost save honor
FRANCIS I It is a testament to your honor,
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yourself... Guard ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
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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 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.
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ALEXANDER POPE In lazy apathy let stoics boast
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ALEXANDER POPE You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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ALEXANDER POPE When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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ALEXANDER POPE For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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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,
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Indulged th...
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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