See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear… — 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
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. — 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
