Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. — 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
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson… — 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
