"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The……" — Alexander Pope
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
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Alexander Pope
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532 Quotes by Alexander Pope
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the…
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once…
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul…
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect;…
— Annie Besant
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she…
— Angela Carter
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work…
— Margery Allingham
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.
— Gautama Buddha
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
— Plato
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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man…
— Whittaker Chambers
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
— Seneca the Younger
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