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In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not the first by whom the New are try


Alexander Pope

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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.
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ALEXANDER POPE Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
ELIAS CANETTI Glossa

Time goes by, time comes along,
All is old and all is new;
What is righ...
MIHAI EMINESCU The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt...
PIET MONDRIAN Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN only through new words
might new worlds
be called
into order
SAUL WILLIAMS Conversation Starters.

Your first words will not only shape your first impression, but t...
SUSAN C. YOUNG The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As...
BOB DYLAN A Second Childhood.”

When all my days are ending
And I have no song to sing,
...
G.K. CHESTERTON I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC There has to be new words
to explain new worlds.
TOBA BETA Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE …Lovers were not, Marina, *are* not permitted to know
destruction so deeply. Must be as if th...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Inside Critics

The critical voices in our own heads are far more vicious than what we mig...
S.A.R.K. For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste.

PAULO COELHO We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if n...
SUSAN SONTAG We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL But first whom shall we send
In search of this new world, whom shall we find
Sufficient? W...
JOHN MILTON Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

[As...
JORGE LUIS BORGES ...What are numbers knit
By force or custom? Man who man would be,
Must rule the empire of hi...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added col...
WILLIAM SAFIRE I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
...
MARY OLIVER Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on ...
ALEXANDER POPE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Pains are not to be relieved
Sorrows are not to fade away
a slight change in the vision RIXA WHITE All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactl...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, a...
ANONYMOUS He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Thinking of you, wherever you are
We pray for our sorrows to end,
and hope that our hearts...
SQUARE ENIX The overwhelming recognition of human sin controls the Old Testament and the New Testament alike, an...
SIR EDWYN HOSKYNS And I know I’ve lost.
Everything is lost.
Everything is over.
“As the newly appoi...
PATRICK NESS Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,...
SAROJINI NAIDU To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, an...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds pu...
RUDYARD KIPLING Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will ...
MAHAVIRA It's been hard to be a show in L.A. and be trendsetting, because the fashions are in New York... Not...
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sou...
ALFRED TENNYSON I have two rules:
First, I'm never wrong.
Second, if I'm wrong...back to the first rule."<...
TSUGUMI OHBA, DEATH NOTE Time is too slow for those who wait
too swift for those who fear
too long for those who grieve...
HENRY VAN DYKE If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never...
JOE ABERCROMBIE By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian)
Well, you're never too o...
SHERRILYN KENYON
Respect every soul on this SOIL

If you make them toil, there blood will BOIL
<...
THERISINGHUMAN The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the nex...
ARNOLD BENNETT Inside" Children

Inside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. ...
S.A.R.K. Every morning
before the birds start
trilling me their stories,
I give birth to a new...
MUNIA KHAN Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid."
<...
IAIN PEARS I don’t think my sister is old enough to have sex.”

“V, she’s the same age you ar...
J.R. WARD There’s too much risk in loving,’
the young boy said,
‘no,’
said the old man,...
ATTICUS POETRY A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Ar...
JAMIE FORD for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

th...
SANOBER KHAN If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If ...
RUDYARD KIPLING Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in or...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Words

Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
ANNE SEXTON New year, new life!" - The saying goes.

It will be?!

Often we place expectatio...
1 MINUTO NA PALMA DA MãO If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN Hello,
How are you?
New in this world?
How old are you??
I'm sure that I know yo...
DEYTH BANGER ...But although the rules are vague
And widely disregarded now
Some precepts remain: live ...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not unde...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Remember The Dream

You have a choice
Your heart will know
You gotta look back s...
JAMES INGRAM We have some new flavors. We tried to get new bands in and new performers, mix it up a bit so people...
JOSH AMOS Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Bac...
TRAVIS BARKER They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years...
LAURENCE BINYON If I don’t succeed, I will try again and never stop trying.
When I succeed, I will again expl...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The old resists the new one.
'Change hurts' is the reason.
TOBA BETA Thought
Of equality- as if it harm'd me,
giving others the same chances
and rights a...
WALT WHITMAN What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"

"Many," Skud...
DEREK LANDY We are all in the same boat,
boat of life. Does not seem
to be a rudder with oarsman.
ROBERT TRABOLD My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally o...
TREY PARKER In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.

N.K. JEMISIN ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT I WILL KILL THE CAT BY LOOKING AT IT?
- It's not quite like that, sir<...
TERRY PRATCHETT [On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now the...
GEORGE CARLIN Averse alike to flatter, or offend;
Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
ALEXANDER POPE Arther, what is first on the agenda?"
...
"The same as ever, Highness. Elections, land, an...
PETER V. BRETT So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years-
Twenty years largely wasted, the year...
T.S. ELIOT You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity

The most modern European is you Pope ...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions t...
VERA NAZARIAN Making decent human beings accept the principle of a private, divine covenant be it first, second, t...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevi...
PAULO COELHO The Type

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken SARAH KAY Will the future bring your wisdom to me?
Or will darkness rule the kingdom for all eternity? NOSTRADAMUS If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then ...
BRIAN ROCK There are many things which can not be expressed by words.
There are many words which can not ...
TOBA BETA There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, al...
BARACK OBAMA Love Was
Love Will Be
But Most of All,
Love is.
Life Cannot Be Without It
I...
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ALEXANDER POPE All seems infected that the infected spy,
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ALEXANDER POPE In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
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To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
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ALEXANDER POPE And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ALEXANDER POPE The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
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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.
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ALEXANDER POPE To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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ALEXANDER POPE Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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ALEXANDER POPE Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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ALEXANDER POPE Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
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ALEXANDER POPE See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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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...
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