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Our judgments, like our watch...

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

True ease in writing comes fr...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

It is observable that the lad...

It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Tis strange the miser should ...

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Avoid Extremes; and shun the ...

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Wit in conversation is only a...

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

What Tully said of war may be...

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

With the mistake your life go...

With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Ye flowers that drop, forsake...

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
Say, is not absence death to those who love?

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Thus unlamented pass the prou...

Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

The difference is as great be...

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

A king is a mortal god on ear...

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

The grave unites; where e'en ...

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

If, presume not to God to sca...

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Nothing can be more shocking ...

Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Great oaks grow from little a...

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Get your enemy to read your w...

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Good-nature and good-sense mu...

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Now hollow fires burn out to ...

Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack
And leave your friends and go.
O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
Look not to left nor right:
In all the endless road you tread
There's nothing but the night.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry ...

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

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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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....