Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. — 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
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends — 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
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all . — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by… — 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
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In men we various ruling passions find, In women, two almost divide the kind; Those, only fixed, they first orlast obey, The… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd — 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
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — 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
“Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear...” — 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
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. — 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
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. — 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
