Alexander Pope Quotes, Birthday Quotes, Long Quotes

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World

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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

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Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

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The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

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The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

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The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

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So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

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You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

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English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates can themselves offer synonyms or lead to a better alternative word or phrase in translation.

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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

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If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

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