Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.
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Related Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l... ALEXANDER POPE The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure... OMAR KHAYYáM O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy moti... BHAGAVAD GITA O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All glory to Adonai! Great is thy love. Great is thy mercy. Great is thy faithfulnes... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Annunciation Salvation to all that will is nigh; That All, which always is all every... JOHN DONNE And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each ... JOHN DONNE Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love, Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace to all t... JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE He hath never failed thee yet. Never will His love forget. O fret not thyself nor let AMY CARMICHAEL From too much love of living From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving... ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manse... BIBLE There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor... RAMANA MAHARSHI Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowl... BIBLE Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sor... CASSANDRA CLARE Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n, Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doom<... JOHN MILTON Seeing One am undone! Enemy nor lo! friend- sans One -is none. That! i... FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us lik... MATTHEW ARNOLD When by the Ruins oft I past My sorrowing eyes aside did cast And here and there the places s... ANNE DUDLEY BRADSTREET Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind it To thy breast, and make thee dead To thy children, t... EURIPIDES I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding-place: I ask no other sunshine than The sunshin... ELIZABETH CLEPHANE Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them al... OSCAR WILDE The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel... OMAR KHAYYAM Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honied... PHILIP FRENEAU O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their ... ANNE BRADSTREET Until thy feet have trod the Road Advise not wayside folk, Nor till thy back has borne the Loa... RUDYARD KIPLING Not a believer in the mosque am I, Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I. I am not the pur... BULLEH SHAH Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the swe... JOHN FLETCHER Although life is hard in pace Lose not thy calm and grace. If thee are not tender ... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So that with ... GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone. GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS Happy be Thy world The world forgetting by the forgotten world; The failed attempts to re... RANJANI RAMACHANDRAN The bird let loose in Eastern skies, Returning fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, no... THOMAS MOORE Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand pres... RUDYARD KIPLING Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the
turne. GEORGE HERBERT When We Two Parted When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-... GEORGE GORDON BYRON Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a r... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie ... ISAAC WATTS Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi... BIBLE Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead, Now I am fled, My soul is in the sky. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, ... OVID An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere amon... W.B. YEATS Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor ... BIBLE In Springtime, O Dionysos, To thy holy temple come, To Elis with thy Graces, Rushing ... PLUTARCH I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold... WALT WHITMAN Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like... BIBLE I saw a ship of material build (Her standards set, her brave apparel on) Directed as by madne... HERMAN MELVILLE With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sw... JOHN MILTON Neither bribe nor loose thy right. GEORGE HERBERT For I am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the... ANONYMOUS Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall. JOHN DONNE Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, ... A.E. HOUSMAN But first on earth as vampire sent Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent Then gastly haun... GEORGE GORDON BYRON Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you wil... KABIR At the sixes and sevens of our mind lead us oh Lord in Thy might In the moment to decide o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Bird of the amber beak,
Bird of the golden wing!
Thy dower is thy carolling;
Thou hast n... EDMUND C. STEDMAN Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. GEORGE HERBERT Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer. GEORGE HERBERT Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer GEORGE HERBERT Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, No... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE CODE: Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.... H.W. CHARLES Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. <... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; RALPH WALDO EMERSON MARSYAS: There are seven keys to the great gate, Being eight in one and one in eigh... ALEISTER CROWLEY There are three lessons I would write- Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of... FRIEDRICH SCHILLER To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, we... ANDREW MARVELL Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the begi... L.M. MONTGOMERY Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengr... GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I jus... HUGHES MEARNS In childhood's pride I said to Thee: O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath, Speak, Master, and r... SAROJINI NAIDU My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my father... SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left�... CECIL DAY-LEWIS In the cold change which time hath wrought on love (The snowy winter of his summer prime), Sho... CAROLINE NORTON Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who w... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life... URSULA K. LE GUIN O rose, who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
But pale, and hard... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the fro... HORACE Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; JOSEPH SMITH JR. That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pe... EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mar... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE …I went away from your side, in love without knowing it. Now I don’t know how your eye... FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade; Since first beneath the chestnut-tree... CAROLINE NORTON Neither turn to thy own way nor seek thy own gain. But inquire the good way's of God. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Ni dieu ni maître! (Neither God nor master) [Feminist and labour slogan trans... LOUIS-AUGUSTE BLANQUI Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall posses... WALT WHITMAN Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control<... GEORGE HERBERT Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU When words run dry, he does not try, nor do I. We are on par. He jus... LANG LEAV Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects ... KAHLIL GIBRAN Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n JOHN MILTON Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,
All are needed by ea... RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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The proper study of Mankind is Man. ALEXANDER POPE And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. ALEXANDER POPE Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. ALEXANDER POPE So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ALEXANDER POPE The most positive men are the most credulous. ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live. ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part, there all the honour lies. ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. ALEXANDER POPE The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe... ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent. ALEXANDER POPE A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead. ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy... ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. ALEXANDER POPE Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ALEXANDER POPE Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ALEXANDER POPE Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear... ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philos... ALEXANDER POPE Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ... ALEXANDER POPE Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h... ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til... ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know? ALEXANDER POPE A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is... ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. 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 But if
We have such another victory, we are undone. ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ... 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. ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ALEXANDER POPE Most women have no characters at all. ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil... ALEXANDER POPE Most authors steal their works, or buy. ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T... ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own ... ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a... ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. 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. ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso... 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. ALEXANDER POPE Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece... ALEXANDER POPE Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake... ALEXANDER POPE From pride, from pride, our very reas ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. 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. ALEXANDER POPE But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heav... 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. ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ... ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man. Placed on this... ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow d... ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. There sha... 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