"My garden, like my life, seems to me……" — Alexander Pope
"My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation."
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532 Quotes by Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope has 532 quotes on this site.
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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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More Alternation Quotes
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be…
— David Berlinski
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence:…
— Adrienne Rich
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Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
— Adrienne Rich
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake…
— John Dewey
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Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when,…
— Rollo May
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake…
— John Dewey
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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the…
— Thomas Merton
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But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or…
— Andrew Coyle Bradley
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Old geography studied nature. Modern geography mostly studies alternation in nature
— Mohammad MUSTAFA
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If you should temporarily lose your sense of well-being, don't be too quick to despair. With humility and patience, wait…
— Thomas A Kempis
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