I have more zeal than wit.


Alexander Pope

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To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop...
MARTIN LUTHER
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER
Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
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
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
FREDERICK W. FABER
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
WILLIAM PENN
Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.
WILLIAM PENN
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast
WILLIAM PENN
I have this arsenal of high-waisted wide-leg '70s pants and overalls. They are more roller-disco...
SOPHIA AMORUSO
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Conceit contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCALD
She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
GEORGE HERBERT
The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the less.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Wit is more often a shield than a lance.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
HUMPHRY DAVY
Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN
There's many a man has more hair than wit.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
DONALD TRUMP
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition o...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance wh...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance w...
JOSEPH ADDISON
I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
I would have made a good Pope.
RICHARD M. NIXON
Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo
PAUL KRASSNER
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists an...
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woma...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Butcher .. how much responsibility does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS
My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of...
AGA KHAN IV
Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
LORD BYRON
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more tha...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN
[Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
AESCHYLUS
Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor;...
WILLIAM TEMPLE SR.
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my caree...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
I'm disappointed with myself because I still think I could have done way better than what I did. But...
DIEGO ROMERO
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
I have an iron lung, and the dog keeps me from getting too close to magnets.
[...]
I have ...
JODI PICOULT
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
CHARLES BUXTON
The more wit the less courage.
THOMAS FULLER
Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. The...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn t...
EUGENE KENNEDY
Our zeal and passion should be expressed before God rather than before people.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It's hard for me to say how we played. In close games, I worry more about coaching than the players....
JAY MURRAY
I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia.
ADDISON TIMLIN
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
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
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
GEORGE CARLIN
I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
GEORGE CARLIN
I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make ...
ALEXANDER MASTERS
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
POPE JOHN XXIII
I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?"

Lillian shot her...
LISA KLEYPAS
The Pope?...how much divisions does he have?
JOSEPH STALIN
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
POPE JOHN I
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder
POPE JOHN PAUL I
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian thir...
MURIEL SPARK
Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for no...
CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
BUDDHA
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
BUDDHA
The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to ...
POPE FRANCIS
I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we...
CHUCK DARBY
He conducted the attack quite well and I had an unpleasant position despite the extra pawn. Alexande...
VISWANATHAN ANAND
The democratic process allows any politician with an agenda, any organization with a big enough show...
DAVID MCALLISTER
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
AVICENNA
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
PLUTARCH
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
BIBLE
Zeal and sincerity can carry a new religion further than any other missionary except fire and sword
MARK TWAIN
I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
ELAINE STRITCH
I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.
RITA RUDNER
The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies. [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
JOHN TILLOTSON
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himse...
CHARLES BUXTON
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
OWEN FELLTHAM
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth b...
AMBROSE BIERCE
Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown, Have ...
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.
SWAMWRA OF BASRA

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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All seems infected that the infected spy,
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Die and endow a college or a cat.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
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Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
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Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
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Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
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Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
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No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
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One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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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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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
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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.
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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.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
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Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
ALEXANDER POPE
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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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.
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on othe...
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