There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul; — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but mainly a woman hates a man for being her… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought: — Alexander Pope Copy Share
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? — Alexander Pope Copy Share
