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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.


Alexander Pope

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His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
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ED BULEY Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG Come as you are, leave as you please, with Christ in your heart, and God on your sleeve.
MATT ROTERT No matter where you go searching for something, you will come back and find it at home.
VIKRANT PARSAI If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock ...
UDANA SUTTA If you hate people,then never aspire to become rich,so that no one will knock at your door.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
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YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
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HARRY YOU If you carry a weapon, war will follow you. If you carry a smile, love will knock at your door.
AMIT RAY 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 Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt wi...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Your hands are mine to hold, Your lips mine to kiss, Your body mine to please, & You soul mine to mo...
JILLIAN JOYCE AARSVOLD 12. There will come a day, much quicker than your parents would wish, when you will no longer be com...
JAMES C. DOBSON I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...
AMIT RAY If you will please people, you must please them in your own way.
LORD CHESTERFIELD “You have brains think. Your child scratchs on your car and you grow wild. Wanting to beat that ch...
THE INSPIRATIONIST What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listeni...
MAXWELL MALTZ What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listeni...
MAXWELL MALTZ If you wait, I will come for you...remembering your touch, your kiss, your warm embrace. I'll My fin...
TRACY CHAPMAN Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
GABOUREY SIDIBE You hold my heart in your hand, do whatever you please with it, you will just do as much damage as y...
OLIVIA LACY Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and m...
BIKRAM CHOUDHURY Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
PATRICK DEMPSEY You can get your appetite elsewhere, as long as you eat at home.
ANONYMOUS Sign at the Pavlov Institute: Knock: Please don't ring bell.
UNKNOWN One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'"
I stared at him, shocked.
Th...
ILONA ANDREWS Please do not try to come back to the island. ... Hopefully, in the next couple of days, this island...
ANN THOMAS Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.
CAITLIN MORAN You may have a body free of disease and deformity, and have no worries or grief at all; you may be u...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Everybody came to play. It was a total team effort, and everybody stepped up. It was just that home-...
JAZZ COVINGTON If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine yo...
WOODROW WILSON Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
MARK TWAIN He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Good fortune will knock on your door, if you believe it can happen to you.
SCOTTIE SOMERS You can’t be “it” for everyone. In fact, if you try to please everyone, you will please no one...
AMBER HURDLE When you feel, staying home is best then your body may be at rest but not your mind.For your mind to...
KOWSALAPATHY You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if...
ERMA BOMBECK Knock, knock! Who's there? Success! Success who? Success who keeps showing up at your door and looks...
ROBERTO TORRES LIFESTYLE TRAINER We cook the kind of foods you eat at home. They're not fancy or complicated. Besides, you can't trus...
GARY ROBERSON Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else...
IRIS CHANG Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
KYLE CHANDLER I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home...
KATE WINSLET Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you alo...
HENRIK IBSEN Oh Sinner! Vain is your attempt to hide your sins, for sins will shine in your life as bald pate shi...
DR HITESH C SHETH These events have been both devastating and emotionally disturbing ... As a family we've discussed t...
JAMES PHALEN Both of those teams are the type of teams that can beat you. They are at home and that will play to ...
LYNDA BOWERS Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A knock on the door you hear, a knock on your head you don't.
DIXIE WATERS Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one e...
JAMES A. MURPHY However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
IVAN TURGENEV Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your hea...
CALVIN & HOBBES Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come shining through. No matter how your hea...
CINDERELLA Treat yourself as you could treat your dearest one,it is important in life to be gentle, kind, lovin...
IRENE GOODWILL Please all, and you will please none.
AESOP Please all, and you will please none
AESOP Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.
RADHE MAA If you cannot breathe, I will breathe for you. If your heart will not beat, mine will beat harder. I...
CAMBRIA HEBERT This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No-one will come in to rescue you. You just have to step out somehow, and make your dreams come true...
MOFFAT MACHINGURA Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you alo...
HENRIK IBSEN I might beat him up, I might knock him out. I will win. [How] I do that, I have no idea.
JOEY GILBERT The good part is you know that you can beat that team, but on the other side, you know they'll come ...
ANDREW COSTON Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
MARK TWAIN Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your hear...
SOURCE UNKNOWN In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in y...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD The more you treat your body and the cells as intelligent being the more you will be sharp, quick, c...
AMIT RAY We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set o...
CHARLES M. LICHENSTEIN The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have a...
DARRELL ROYAL Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful. No, your beauty ...
ANONYMOUS In your life time you will be criticized by others and they're opinion either to bring you down or m...
MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN We strongly urge people if you do not have to get out, please stay at home.
CLIFFORD GALEY You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
RICHARD BURTON People may not like you, but that's cool because your heart doesn't beat from their liking. You can'...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
MALIK JACKSON You have to separate. Even when you're working, you have to come home and just be at home.
SANDY ANDERSON All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say theres no one for you, But here is one
JEFF BUCKLEY 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets,...
BARTON GELLMAN Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
MICHAEL MOORE Every time we play at home we feel great. It will be difficult but I fancy our chances.
ALBERTO MANCINI Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
ALEXANDER POPE If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination li...
PARK CHAN-WOOK Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury
you. I already buried everyone els...
PAULLINA SIMONS Your body will tell you when you're ready to go, ... and I think I'm at that point right now.
ANQUAN BOLDIN Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do ...
ART MALIK You own your body. You own your body. You own your body. Your center and your edges are yours and yo...
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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 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 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 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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