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Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.


Alexander Pope

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
ALEXANDER POPE Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.
ALEXANDER POPE Trust not yourself, but your defects to know,
Make use of every friend—and every foe.
A ...
ALEXANDER POPE Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense!
ALEXANDER POPE Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE Dnt worry abt the problems bcoz problems are here to solve. Find out the way to solve each and evry ...
AMIT PRATAP SINGH CHOUHAN Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're...
BRIAN TRACY None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE Beware of the friend who was once your foe.
PROVERB Trust yourself. Make sure your mistakes are your own, not somebody else’s.
JEFFREY FRY He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
NICHOLAS BRETON Know yourself, love yourself, trust yourself, learn to spend time in your own company and listen to ...
ETTA SAWYERR Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE Oh dear heart,
save yourself.
will you not sing yourself to sleep
humming wishes you...
HANNAH CAO Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."

ANTON CHEKHOV And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will mo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But you neither friend nor foe, though I can't seem to let you go, the one thing that I still know i...
SARA BAREILLES You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or f...
PATRICIA FRIPP You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or ...
PATRICIA FRIPP Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's ma...
RASHEED OGUNLARU “A 'FRIEND' IS NOT A 'FRIEND' UNTIL THEY KNOW WHERE YOU HURT• UNTIL THEY KNOW HOW TO STOMP YOUR ...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
ADELE BROOKMAN Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Being Yourself” means aligning your beliefs, words and actions. Be yourself, accept yourself, valu...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If y...
RUDYARD KIPLING Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.
On my shoulders I support the sky.
Trust me to kno...
ROBERT JORDAN Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?
BRIAN JACQUES If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.
C.S. LEWIS Therefore, as always, make of this voice what you choose to make of it. Make of me what you choose t...
JANE ROBERTS I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.
CARL WHITE Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DON'T TELL YOUR SECRETS.
A whisper can betray you.
DON'T EVER STOP.
They will always ...
MICHELLE GAGNON Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be bra...
N.D. JONES Friendship! That bond shared, not with the one you see every day but with the one that has got your ...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Demons don't understand human hearts, not well. They see through a distorted glass and show you what...
CASSANDRA CLARE Your spouse is not a possession you attain, but a friend in which you trust & adore.
ROBERT VANLEEUWEN Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,
not how others feel about you.
Do you trust...
RON W. RATHBUN I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe: WILLIAM BLAKE Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your ...
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Trust what is not known to your Mind.
Trust what is known to your Heart.
TONY SAMARA The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
STEVEN GROVER CLEVELAND Sometimes
you meet people and know immediately
that they were meant to be your friend.
ALISON G. BAILEY Respect your entity & be the best you can be. Make yourself enough to trust in yourself & make yours...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does...
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY Sayings of the Prophet
Trust: Trust in God – but tie your camel first.
IDRIES SHAH We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those whic...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
JOHN GAY You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of sufferin...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") I am not sure I trust you."
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my w...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Take the time to reflect and get to know yourself. Understanding yourself and your behavior is an in...
AKIROQ BROST Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your fri...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your fri...
HASDAI IBN SHAPRUT Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character)

I would be true, for there are those who trust me; JOHN C. MAXWELL Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
...
ENIGMA When you get lost in a really strange place,
nothing is more comforting than found your
...
TOBA BETA You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own...
BRIAN GRAZER Follow your heart, trust your gut, and use your head.
JODI LIVON Don't flatter yourself that being family or friend authorizes you to ever be rude. The closer your r...
BJ MORIN Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a ...
OREN ARNOLD My son, do not forget my teaching,
But let your heart keep my commandments;
For l...
ANONYMOUS Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.
TURKISH PROVERB Don't Trust Other..
Make Others to Trust you..
VIVEKANAND SELVARAJ If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven an...
SUN TZU Remember:
all the thoughts you have
of yourself and others
are written on your face...
KAMAND KOJOURI Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be tr...
ROBERT T. KIYOSAKI Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?

Have you declared yourself enlightened...
PETER J. CARROLL If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite...
PEARL BUCK You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite...
PEARL S. BUCK A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend."
His Mother says: "Why did yo...
VERONICA ROTH Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but ...
MUSIQ SOULCHILD They know your face, but not your mind.
They understand your words, but not your heart.
Th...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
EDWARD DAHLBERG If that you have a former friend for foe.
JOHN BYROM He makes no friend who never made a foe.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend
PROVERB What it means to be authentic:
- to be more concerned with truth than opinions
- to be sin...
SUE FITZMAURICE There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betra...
DANIEL ABRAHAM You're right, but Alexander Cartwright was a good friend of Shakespeare's and they played a prototyp...
FRAN HEALY Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get ang...
CHANAKYA Trust yourself. Believe in yourself. Listen to your inner voice. Don't second guess yourself. Learn ...
AKIROQ BROST Do not hold your breath for anyone,
Do not wish your lungs to be still,
It may delay the c...
ERIN HANSON

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ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Philos...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
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ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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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...
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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.
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