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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.


Alexander Pope

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It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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UNKNOWN A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
LEE SEGALL There is no explanation for his death, it is just very, very sad. Our hearts go out to his family.
MARGIE FEINBERG Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE There is just one life for each of us: our own.
EURIPIDES Godliness with contentment is rare.
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CASSANDRA GIOVANNI Reckless with our government;
reckless with his own future, position and place in history.
CLARE SHORT I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.
JOHN MAYER No two people are alike
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ADAM JOHNSON Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
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ALEXANDER POPE To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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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 How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
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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.
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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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