Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.


Alexander Pope

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Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
WILLIAM COWPER
Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")
We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's pe...
JACK CADE
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
THOMAS A KEMPIS
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet r...
BIBLE
Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,...
BIBLE
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for...
LAJOS KOSSUTH
Name it and Blame it, doesn't mean you solved it, nor owned it, nor changed it
GRACE MCGARVIE
We are pleased to have delivered this order to El.Ma as it is the next step in our collaboration. We...
PETER NOR
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,Nor public men, nor cheering crowds.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Common folk, not statesmen, nor generals nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and wom...
HENRY CADBURY
When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
God does not need man nor his won works.
JOHN MILTON
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its am...
WALT WHITMAN
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor ...
HOMER
Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
GEORGE HERBERT
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to ea...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages. A golden mind sto...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, no...
BIBLE
O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,
That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;
Their ...
ANNE BRADSTREET
What we want is some sort of communism not based on wages, nor profits, nor any sort of buying and s...
D.H. LAWRENCE
Who are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men!
RUDYARD KIPLING
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
For a city consists in men, and not in walls nor in ships empty of men
NICIAS
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran n...
FATEMA MERNISSI
You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,-- who can deny it? But when you prai...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition ...
THOMAS HOBBES
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY
When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, n...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him...
JOHN KEATS
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out and out unb...
SIGMUND FREUD
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: / But as we were allowed of...
BIBLE
The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the inn...
OLIVER ELLSWORTH
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough ...
STEVE TOLTZ
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, Nor should he.
FEMALE IMAGINATION
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
The currency of the great is neither Yen,nor Naira,nor Dollar ,nor Pound sterling,but faith.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
War then, is a relation - not between man and man: but between state and state; and individuals are ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE
Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and...
ROBIN HOBB
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE
He is not the same, nor is he another.
BUDDHA
My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Red...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
From too much love of living
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
From praise, as from a shadow, a man is neither bigger nor smaller
DANISH PROVERB
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the ...
ALCAEUS
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the ...
ALCAEUS
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerog...
JOHN J. INGALLS
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerog...
JOHN JAMES INGALLS
He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all shall want some.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor th...
ROGER WATERS
Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark.
THOMAS FULLER
Then, welcome each rebuff / That turns earth's smoothness rough, / Each sting that bids nor sit nor ...
ROBERT BROWNING
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors a...
RICHARD STALLMAN
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors a...
RICHARD STALLMAN
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one ca...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your ...
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY
As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more su...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Nor ,the food given by those who knowingly bear with paramours ,of their wives , and by those who in...
GURU NANAK
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read ...
HERMAN HESSE
The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day; But why the people call it so...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles...
ROGER WATERS
Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor i...
GEORGE MULLER
If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
One day we will stand before the throne of grace and be judged not by wealth nor academical achievem...
SIBU CHANZA
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIRE
There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIRE
There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all occasions
VOLTAIRE
Money is neither good nor evil,but good men makes money good & evil men makes money evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
FAITH EVANS
Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look...
JULIA QUINN
And with Him are the keys of the unseen treasures-- none knows them but He; and He knows what is in ...
QURAN
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
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand pres...
RUDYARD KIPLING
We did not request the court date change nor did the federal government. I can only assume that the ...
ELBERT GUILLORY
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereaf...
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
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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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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
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Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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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.
ALEXANDER POPE
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
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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.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
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Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
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With his own ...
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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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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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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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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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In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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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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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
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From pride, from pride, our very reas
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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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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But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heav...
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
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A little learning is a dangerous thing;
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
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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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Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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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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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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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.
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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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Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
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Indulged th...
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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more ...
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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy...
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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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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
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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!
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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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.
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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.
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...
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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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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
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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.
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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.
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