First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow. — 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 Image
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 Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Image
