Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.


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Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man
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Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.
LAO TZU
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Placed on this...
ALEXANDER POPE
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
D. H. LAWRENCE
The proper study of mankind is woman.
HENRY ADAMS
The proper study of mankind is books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The proper study of Mankind is Everything.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
HERBERT SIMON
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE
Oh! A mystery is it?' I cried, rubbing my hands. 'This is very piquant. I am much obliged to you for...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing...
BIBLE
"I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!" "Not of the importance you ...
JOHN GAY
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.
ROBERT LLOYD
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
Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowle...
DANIEL D. PALMER
Study of the scriptures is not the same as the study of religion and God. So far, we don't yet have ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
Know thyself, believe in God, and dare to dream.
JOHN THOMAS "SPIDER" SALLEY
The ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on ...
ALEXANDER POPE
If a proper study were done, the results in, given proper consideration and then sites chosen, I'd s...
DAN KENNEDY
Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorize...
ORSON PRATT
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A man becomes a scholar by the help of self-study and proper analysis of whatever he has studied.
RIG VEDA
[Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST
Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the...
POPE FRANCIS
Let a man live with God, not afraid to talk with him. Let him study God's plans and methods, as ...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
Henry Ward Beecher
HENRY WARD BEECHER
One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to h...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a' kennin'...
ROBERT BURNS
Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangel...
DENIS BROGAN
A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind.
KIM PANTI
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
CONFUCIUS
The death of any man will not remove God's throne.
OLAWALE DANIEL
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is t...
ECCLESIASTES
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occa...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intent...
SUZY KASSEM
If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who se...
JOHANN MOST
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and par...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, ...
PAULO COELHO
I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. T...
BILL HICKS
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Acquaint thyself with God.
A.W. TOZER
One has to know the size of one's stomach.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If you seek for the supreme predator, then find God. He is the hunter of the killer of mankind himse...
TOBA BETA
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do ...
JOHN GRAY
I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divine...
JOYCE KILMER
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire...
SWAMI SIVANANDA
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
THOMAS TUSSER
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the...
MAIMONIDES
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but...
PIERRE CHARRON
God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
There's a tremendous statement there about the universality of man. It's who the pope is.
GILBERT LEVINE
The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
THOMAS KEMPIS
A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
THOMAS A KEMPIS
The man who does not know God is a poor and miserable person
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Know thyself.
THALES
Know thyself.
SOCRATES
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgi...
CONFUCIUS
The true science and study of man is man.
PIERRE CHARRON
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Anything a man says in his field of study should not be amazing_ if he doesn't know, who will?
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
A Man Who Became Pope
KAROL WOJTYLA
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE
Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
EURIPIDES
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and ...
ADAM CLAYTON
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and ...
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR.
We'll have to wait for the results of the scan, but if he does not make it then it gives someone els...
DAVE JONES
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can&#...
JOHN GRAY
Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried;Then ask God's help; it will not be denied.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: / But if I tarry long, that thou m...
BIBLE
'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say '...
MENANDER
If Satan exists, and if he is clever at promoting Evil, then would he not agitate one section of man...
STEPHEN PAUL LATHER
Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.
RALPH BLUM
You must seek to know thyself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN
Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man. - John Gay,
JOHN GAY
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ...
FRANCIS BACON SR.

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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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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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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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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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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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,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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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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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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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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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
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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.
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