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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.


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Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE The kindest interpretation would be: 'Hope springs eternal.
J.K. ROWLING All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
JULIAN OF NORWICH Hope springs eternal where faith abides.
RAIN BOJANGLES He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Hope always springs eternal, ... You don't see many times when fans think they're worse off, no matt...
MIKE MCGEE All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism ...
DOMINIC CHIANESE 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 The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is m...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN You can never be assured of removing all breast tissue. But it is a huge reduction in breast cancer.
EMILY HARRIS In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only th...
WILLIAM R. ALGER Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON 'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.
JOHN ARMSTRONG Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal tru...
WILLIAM C. CLEGG Since estrogen is known to be involved in the development and progression of human breast cancer, an...
DR PHILIPPA DARBRE Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satis...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never sat...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband."
"He's not...
NICHOLAS SPARKS [Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope springs forever.
J.K. ROWLING That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.
CHARLES F. DEEMS We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in lo...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Life sometimes seem difficult to live and too negative. But, with Allah Almighty every difficult and...
SALSABEEL There is always hope for man or dog in life if only they be cute
CHRIS PARISEAU Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitabl...
BLAISE PASCAL Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things...
MURIEL RUKEYSER There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
CHARLES DICKENS Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of t...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us....
DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode But the hope, the burning hope, and th...
JOHN MASEFIELD The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it ove...
MAYA ANGELOU The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in...
BUDDHA Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... bec...
CHARLES STANLEY You can't have a zero hope. When you die, even you hope. Hope is our last meal before saying goodbye...
EPHDAN The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
JULIEN OFFROY DE LA METTRIE But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to h...
CHARLES IVES Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNS Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unfor...
GRAHAM GREENE Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgi...
GRAHAM GREENE The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we n...
BLAISE PASCAL This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a sh...
JOHN MUIR Heaven's always been wireless but allowing pets is a more recent development... Thanks Pope Francis!
KEN O. ELDIB The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal li...
HENRY B. EYRING The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... A Man Who Became Pope
KAROL WOJTYLA That is one good thing about this world. . .there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.
L.M. MONTGOMERY That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
CARL ANDRE Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. ...
BIBLE Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existenc...
LEON BOURGEOIS There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.
DAVID MILLAR There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in no sport.
DAVID MILLAR One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being. I...
FERNANDO FLORES To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal EyesOf Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into...
WILLIAM BLAKE The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a sho...
JOHN MUIR “The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a ...
JOHN MUIR I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human right...
BJORN ULVAEUS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn’t.
DON WILLIAMS, JR A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn’t.
DON WILLIAMS JR Having the BRCA mutation significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, but it is not always the...
DEAN ORNISH To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.
ASHTON KUTCHER To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
NORMAN COUSINS When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is...
NATALIE COLE If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a m...
SALLY STRUTHERS Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
ABRAHAM COWLEY It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
WILLA CATHER Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
ROBERT BURNS Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS There's a tremendous statement there about the universality of man. It's who the pope is.
GILBERT LEVINE A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn’t.
DON WILLIAMS, JR Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Men is able to clonate a human body, but will never be able to clonate a human soul
IVONNE SANCHEZ Men is able to clonate a human body, but will never be able to clonate a human soul
IVONNE SANCHEZ The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far a...
BARBARA T. CERNY Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being ...
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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.
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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.
ALEXANDER POPE Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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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.
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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 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