That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“How vain are all these Glories, all our Pains, Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains: That Men may say, when we… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — 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
