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YOLANDA CLARK
The new equipment will give a much needed boost to the facilities within the school.
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There was no trauma to support he was struck by the train.
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That last thing we needed was a train wreck, which is potentially what could have happened.
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As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians...
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The failure affected the entire campus-some lights went dim, some heating ventilation equipment turn...
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The break was an inch from his hip joint, and Dr. (David) Carlton didn't think there was enough bone...
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Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the...
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In the course of their work today, crews noticed some equipment that needed to be replaced. We felt ...
KATHLEEN LEWIS
Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle
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It is one of those rare instances where government was able to operate like a private business and p...
CARL LAUNDRIE
We're still getting the equipment together and reconfiguring our equipment. We needed a different pu...
MALCOLM FOX
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ASA HUTCHINSON
Heck gave us some problems. I thought maybe we needed to introduce David Patten to him at halftime s...
JOE CRAVENS
forever can never be long enough for me to feel that i've had long enough with you
TRAIN
Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star?
TRAIN
We don't want this argument to be obscured by those who would suggest that anyone who is for more an...
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Successful localization of hydroelectric equipment in the Three Gorges Project means China has been ...
ZENG PEIYAN
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signale...
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
There is insufficient evidence that there was intentional wrongdoing by David Wittig.
JEFF MORRIS
It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism.
MEHMET AGCA
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CLIFF BLACK
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
For the United States to get (them) the training and equipment they needed, we had to stitch togethe...
JEFFREY NADANER
That was a bomb. Too bad a train wasn't going by.
CHARLIE MONTOYO
The money was gone and it was tough to operate.
BLANE REESE
I thought it was off for the holidays and rode by and saw a letter and all the equipment was gone.
COURTNEY MANSELL
Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'
NICK CANNON
It was almost immediate that we started to see Pope Benedict items and memorabilia come onto the sit...
HANI DURZY
Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscu...
YOUSSEF ZIEDAN
Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep w...
BHAGAVAD GITA
We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY
You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR
I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL
It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR
If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN
Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE
there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER
Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT
I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN
2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE
I was 16. In the middle of the night, I took a taxi to the Detroit train station - or maybe it was t...
ELIZABETH REASER
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so man...
RICK WAKEMAN
'Washington's Crossing,' by David Fischer.
JAMES MCPHERSON
I wasn't interested in test lab cost savings; I was interested in maintaining an exceptional level o...
BRAD SIIMS
Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN
This is a new program and I think it is one that is needed in the county to train our young people.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON
The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB
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MICHAEL CHAPMAN
I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger...
DAVID CONE
It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for...
MAX BARRY
After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now h...
HORST KOEHLER
For us, it's making sure the capabilities we have in each service are interchangeable, so, for insta...
ELLEN EMBREY
We knew we were having a car wash, and we thought it would be nice. The money was going to our equip...
COREY JACKSON
How often does the train go by?
JOHN BELUSHI
I definitely think fly tying is addicting, but you can start out cheaply. You can get the needed equ...
BOB ANDERSON
Volunteer fire departments operate on very limited budgets. We wanted to help these local heroes and...
BILL GILBERT
How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
JOHN FORD
Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixi...
DAVID TUDOR
There would be three basic approaches towards implementing the plan, such as low-scale impacts by ha...
KATHLEEN EDWARDS
I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
DONALD TRUMP
I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND
There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their pho...
CHRISSY TEIGEN
All we've been hearing all week was David and Goliath. Who always won? It was David, right. David be...
ERIK HANSON
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE
Those outages were caused by separate equipment failures.
JOHN DEWEY
It was like a train, a runaway train, there was no stopping it.
MARK DAVID CHAPMAN
David Lange was the leader of a much-needed revolution, but he understood that it was causing unnece...
ANDREW LITTLE
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DALE WERNER
The Auto Club believes that when a motorist buys a vehicle, he or she also buys everything needed to...
ALICE BISNO
The crew was whistling before impact and put the train into an emergency brake application. Unfortun...
GUS MELONAS
The common talk of the struggle for survival has obscured the plain fact that man rose in the world ...
HERMANN MULLER
David was catnip and kryptonite to me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It l...
LEMONY SNICKET
The resolute determination [of Self-realization] is not formed in the minds of those who are attache...
BHAGAVAD GITA
He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar ...
B. SMITH
The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David
CARLA LYNNE HALL
Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
WILLA CATHER
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representi...
ZOE SALDANA
Truth like the sun, submits to be obscured; but like the sun, only for a time
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE
We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the g...
SARAH PARCAK
We needed to control costs from a labor perspective. We would rather spend the money on equipment th...
ALAN HUNT
(We find it) a good idea to avoid (individual) boat ownership and own it collectively. There's all n...
ED FAZIO
David was then shot in the chest.
ALVIN BEST
David was very enthusiastic about the transaction.
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You can’t drive a car and a truck through at the same time,
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It's what you don't even remember you did that gets you into heaven, ... God turned that man around.
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The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
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Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
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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.
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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.
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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.
ALEXANDER POPE
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS
Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS
Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS
We all have the duty to do good.
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From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
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In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
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When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
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The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS
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
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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
I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ...
CARLY POPE
I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.
CARLY POPE
I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's no...
CARLY POPE
People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's...
CARLY POPE
I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find t...
CARLY 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
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS
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
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
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...
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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.
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...
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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, ...
ALEXANDER POPE
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.
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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.
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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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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that ...
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