In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all . — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream; — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know. — 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
