The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.


Pope John XXIII

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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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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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.
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
'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