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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.
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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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