Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act… — 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
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“All this dread order break- for whom? for thee? Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one… — 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
