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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.


Alexander Pope

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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Solution is not really in making poor a rich. But in making rich a poor (justly and constructively)
WOHI PURANA All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor peop...
MARCO RUBIO He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN It is wiser to research death,for death is the common end of all mortals,white or black,rich or poor...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to e...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE My story. I inherited it.”
“I think I’d rather inherit money than a story.”
“I h...
TIFFANY REISZ P7- citizens have learned to think rich and live poor.
IVAN ILLICH The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the p...
MARK TWAIN A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor,...
ANDREA DWORKIN Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. T...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR A person who is physically poor but mentally rich is far greater than a person who is mentally poor ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In othe...
JAMES ALTUCHER Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick
DAVE BARRY There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those ...
DENNIS PRAGER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.
AMIT KALANTRI The economic interests of the rich are being put before poor people and the environment.
CLAUDE MARTIN You become rich by helping the poor; you become rich also by helping the rich! Helping makes you ric...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
ARTHUR GUITERMAN It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.
LUDWIG VON MISES The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are...
SAADI The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are...
SA'DI Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.
AMIT KALANTRI My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD The mind sets of the rich & poor;While the rich think of how to benefit others by serving,the poor o...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
ANNA LINDH All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poo...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greate...
JOSIAH STRONG Blood that was warm has now run cold
bled every day have hearts become old
Telling I am th...
PRABHUKRISHNA M Your keeping the rich rich and the poor poor,
BRAD LITTLE History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
JEFFREY D. SACHS There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the...
OSCAR WILDE Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter To him tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the...
OSCAR WILDE The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receivi...
SANTOSH KALWAR I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.
JEREMY TAYLOR I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
SOPHIE TUCKER I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
BESSIE SMITH They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like ...
PRINCESS DIANA Electricity produced in the name of the poor is consumed by the rich with endless appetites,
ARUNDHATI ROY The rich spends After The Return,But the poor spends Before The Return.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
COLONEL HARLAN SANDERS Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting
CHINESE PROVERBS By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
DEMOCRITUS I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich ric...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a ma...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The rich is a friend of the poor because,the poor makes him richer & the poor is also a friend & an ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good acti...
BP. THOMAS WILSON Life's irony;The rich lovehates the poor because the poor makes them exist & also disturbs them by d...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater t...
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet posses...
BIBLE Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition o...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The rich do not possess aught more precious than their Bible...the poor cannot be presented by the r...
JAMES MCHENRY After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them star...
JOHN BRUNNER I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
MAE WEST Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo...
KURT VONNEGUT Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep say...
JACK PAAR The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn t...
EUGENE KENNEDY Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The poor makes the rich & the rich makes the poor.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN I've been rich and I've been poor; Believe me, honey, rich is better.
SOPHIE TUCKER I've been rich and I’ve been poor -- and believe me, rich is better.
SOPHIE TUCKER Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordi...
ANDREW LEIGH It is better to die young rich in adoration than to live long amongst poor principles.
SCOTTIE SOMERS It is better to die young rich in love, than to live long amid poor principles.
SCOTTIE SOMERS I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are dire...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are direc...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.
AMIT KALANTRI This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, ...
BIBLE For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike...
THOMAS SYDENHAM Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the ric...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregatio...
J. D. VANCE Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep...
JACK PAAR Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came ...
BIBLE About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the ...
HENRY WHEELER SHAW Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the ...
MAHATMA GANDHI The rich that is interested in others successes & taps into them is wiser & will become richer.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the ...
ELLEN G. WHITE I actually started, as a result of 'Scandal,' instead of wearing a bathrobe, wearing sweater...
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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.
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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.
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To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
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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 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...
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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?
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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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