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So modern 'pothecaries, taugh...

So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Some men's wit is like a dark...

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Some have at first for wits, ...

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Learn to live well, or fairly...

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

No louder shrieks to pitying ...

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Thus let me live, unseen, unk...

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Some to conceit alone their t...

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Whoever thinks a faultless pi...

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Our plenteous streams a vario...

Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Sure of their qualities and d...

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

In men, we various ruling pas...

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

For forms of government let f...

For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Good God! how often are we to...

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 the best part.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Love, free as air, at sight o...

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Wise wretch! with pleasures t...

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

The dull flat falsehood serve...

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Envy will merit as its shade ...

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Where grows?--where grows it ...

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Thou wert my guide, philosoph...

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Of little use, the man you ma...

Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....