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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjo...
HORACE WALPOLE I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of...
AGA KHAN IV Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of book...
DENIS O'HARE And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned w...
BIBLE I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. T...
BILL HICKS I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
BIBLE Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many ...
EUGENE KENNEDY I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Butcher .. how much responsibility does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS This universe was created perfect,but man ignorantly stamped his imperfect signature on it,because o...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN Of this total, 100% learned the numbers, to write their names, and to read. 88% learned to read with...
CARLOS MARTINEZ Canada's subsidized imports of softwood lumber harm the U.S. lumber industry.
MAX BAUCUS I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER Anyone with a form of godliness is promoting ungodliness, whether ignorantly or knowingly.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop...
MARTIN LUTHER There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
OSCAR WILDE There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope
OSCAR WILDE To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Humans always want to identify with the refined diamond but the diamond in the rough we ignorantly j...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and rob...
CHINA MIéVILLE Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal he...
CHARLES HODGE The movie was the life story of baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, who begin his professio...
RONALD REAGAN Every pope has had his own chef, so there are volumes of recipes in the Vatican's records.
PAT SCHAUMANN Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to m...
HARPER LEE Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their bell...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS [Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST He was not at the moment in very good odour at Bow Street. Such epithets as Blockhead and Blunderer ...
GEORGETTE HEYER Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Arafat is interested in developing a relationship with all the leaders of the world in order to main...
MAHDI ABDEL HADI Shot him in the head with a shotgun and his head split straight down.
DIANE THOMAS Most companies become bankrupt because they ignorantly employ greed in the management of their affai...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In t...
MARY ANTIN With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only...
WILLIAM R. ALGER We are here to compete, we will compete fair and square, and we will go home with loads and loads of...
GIDEON SAM A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, an...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, an...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, an...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, an...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, SR. In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on...
FRANCES E. WILLARD Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. ...
BEN JONSON That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
KARL PILKINGTON A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfe...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 14th-century pope with a 21st-century communications network (that) sustains his church's mission of...
GEORGE MONBIOT I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
DONATELLA VERSACE But the results are unbelievable. Everything has improved with my son. He writes with more ease; his...
CHRISTINE MCCABE Man's greatest & ultimate desire is to see the mysterious Infinite,but he has ignorantly failed to s...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Dead, we become the lumber of the world.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Home...
ROMAN PAYNE He loved what he did for the Navy. His unit recovered over four tractor-trailer loads of explosives.
BOB WILSON In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they c...
WILL ROGERS In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they co...
WILL ROGERS The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and att...
DAVE BARRY One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being. I...
FERNANDO FLORES Despite the fact that this was a terrible injury and in those days a great handicap, Dad always clai...
CHARLES LARRICK Robbie had a great tournament, he's 20-1. His only loss was to a kid from Pennsylvania, 14-7. But he...
BRUCE LINDBLAD Every poet who aspires to celebrity strives to approach the perfection of Pope and the sweetness of ...
DAVID HUMPHREYS Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifl...
MICHAEL ZASLOW Ignoring something is nearly doing nothing ignorantly!
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to...
BRUNO BETTELHEIM A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

[Alexander's tombstone epit...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in hi...
EMIL ZATOPEK An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in hi...
ANITA BHOGLE Off with his head
MARISSA MEYER Everyone calls him Blockhead
No one sings his praises
Or takes him to heart...

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KENJI MIYAZAWA There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to &...
MARLEE MATLIN Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
JOHN RUSKIN Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes acc...
HESKETH PEARSON Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes a...
HESKETH PEARSON Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes ac...
HESKETH PEARSON A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best a...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I grew up in a neighborhood so rough, I learned to read by the light of a police helicopter.
BILL JONES I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
EDMUND WILSON He would walk around with his head down and his arms crossed or his hands in his pockets.
MICHAEL WRIGHT The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will f...
THOMAS BECKET There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their pho...
CHRISSY TEIGEN An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in hi...
ANITA BHOGLE Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
LORD BYRON At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.
GRESHAM BARRETT Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
GEORGE HERBERT opened its doors to residents of the Alexander Youth Center and others with special needs.
BARBARA WEBB I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really you...
DAKOTA FANNING Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
JOHN RUSKIN Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the...
POPE FRANCIS

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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 '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 Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on othe...
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