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Alexander Pope: Fix'd like a...

Alexander Pope: Fix'd like a...

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.


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Alexander Pope: Order is heav'ns...

Alexander Pope: Order is heav'ns...

Order is heav'ns first law.

Source: An Essay on Man
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21...

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Alexander Pope: All are but...

Alexander Pope: All are but...

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul.


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Alexander Pope: And he whose...

Alexander Pope: And he whose...

And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad
It is not poetry, but prose run mad.


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Alexander Pope: Beauties in vain...

Alexander Pope: Beauties in vain...

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the...

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Alexander Pope: And love th'...

Alexander Pope: And love th'...

And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence.

Source: Eloisa to Abelard, 192
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Alexander Pope: For virtue's self...

Alexander Pope: For virtue's self...

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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Alexander Pope: Ev'n copious Dryden...

Alexander Pope: Ev'n copious Dryden...

Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,
The last and greatest art, the art to blot.


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Alexander Pope: Formed by thy...

Alexander Pope: Formed by thy...

Formed by thy converse happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.


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Alexander Pope: Eternal smiles his...

Alexander Pope: Eternal smiles his...

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.


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Alexander Pope: Has she no...

Alexander Pope: Has she no...

Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir?
Yes she has one, I must aver;
When all the world conspires to praise...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control;...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control;...

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: All the charm...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: All the charm...

All the charm of all the Muses
often flowering in a lonely word.


Source: In...

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Thornton Wilder: But there comes...

Thornton Wilder: But there comes...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a...

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Thornton Wilder: Man is not...

Thornton Wilder: Man is not...

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth...

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Henry David Thoreau: Our moments of...

Henry David Thoreau: Our moments of...

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have...

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Henry David Thoreau: The greatest compliment...

Henry David Thoreau: The greatest compliment...

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my...

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Henry David Thoreau: Whether the flower...

Henry David Thoreau: Whether the flower...

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it!...

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Honore de Balzac: Equality may perhaps...

Honore de Balzac: Equality may perhaps...

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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Mahatma Gandhi: There are limits...

Mahatma Gandhi: There are limits...

There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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