Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness… — 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
