Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their… — 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
