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You purchase pain with all tha...

You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Love, free as air at sight of ...

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

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

'Tis not enough your counsel s...

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Conceit is to nature what pain...

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

A bee is not a busier animal t...

A bee is not a busier animal than a blockhe

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

But honest instinct comes a vo...

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Giving advice is many times on...

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

To buy books as some do who ma...

To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Fine sense and exalted sense a...

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Fame can never make us lie dow...

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Heav'n from all creatures hide...

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

A king is a mortal god on eart...

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 pro

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

The man that loves and laughs ...

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

The best way to prove the clea...

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

With the mistake your life goe...

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

Praise is like ambergrease: a ...

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

But see how oft ambition's aim...

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

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Superstition is the spleen of ...

Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry me...

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

Alexander Pope 1116 quotes

It is observable that the ladi...

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.

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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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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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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....