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Pope Paul VI

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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Money has to serve, not to rule.
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Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
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We all have the duty to do good.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
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Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
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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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I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.
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But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
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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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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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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
To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS
It doesn't bother me that people think that Blake Shelton made me go country, because I can unde...
CASSADEE 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