’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Alexander Pope · An Essay on Criticism (1711), pt. I

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man, I

True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Alexander Pope · Translation of the Odyssey, XV

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.

Alexander Pope · Translation of the Iliad, III

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Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Samuel Johnson

Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood—sex and the dead.

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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

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“’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.”

“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”

“True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”

“She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.”

“Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”

“Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood—sex and the dead.”

“If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.”