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Alexander Pope: Charms strike the...

Alexander Pope: Charms strike the...

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Source: The Rape of the Lock, V....

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Alexander Pope: Fine by defect...

Alexander Pope: Fine by defect...

Fine by defect and delicately weak.

Source: Moral Essays, Epistle II. 43
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Alexander Pope: Good God! how...

Alexander Pope: Good God! how...

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and...

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Alexander Pope: Conceit is to...

Alexander Pope: Conceit is to...

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it not only is useless, but it impairs what it would...

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Alexander Pope: Nature and Nature's...

Alexander Pope: Nature and Nature's...

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.


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Alexander Pope: Lo, the poor...

Alexander Pope: Lo, the poor...

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul proud science...

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Alexander Pope: Where'er you find...

Alexander Pope: Where'er you find...

Where'er you find `the cooling western breeze',
In the next line, it `whispers through the trees':
If crystal...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And slowly answer'd...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And slowly answer'd...

And slowly answer'd Arthur from the barge:
'The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils...

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Oscar Wilde: Man is a...

Oscar Wilde: Man is a...

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of...

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Oscar Wilde: Cecil Graham: What...

Oscar Wilde: Cecil Graham: What...

Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of...

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Oscar Wilde: Experience is the...

Oscar Wilde: Experience is the...

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dowered with the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dowered with the...

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn,
The love of love.


Source: The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dark house, by...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dark house, by...

Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street.


Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For good ye...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For good ye...

For good ye are and bad, and like to coins,
Some true, some light, but every one of you
Stamped with the image...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God make thee...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God make thee...

God make thee good as thou art beautiful.

Source: Idylls of the King, `The Holy...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For words, like...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For words, like...

For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: On either side...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: On either side...

On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou shalt hear...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou shalt hear...

Thou shalt hear the `Never, never', whispered by the phantom years.

Source:...

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William Wordsworth: Heaven lies about...

William Wordsworth: Heaven lies about...

Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing...

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William Wordsworth: Golf is a...

William Wordsworth: Golf is a...

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Source: In The Golfer's Book...

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