Giving Quotes by Alexander Pope

I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one…

— Alexander Pope

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

— Alexander Pope

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

— Alexander Pope

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

— Alexander Pope

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

— Alexander Pope

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

— Alexander Pope

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

— Alexander Pope

The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

— Alexander Pope

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above…

— Alexander Pope

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of…

— Alexander Pope

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee…

— Alexander Pope

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from…

— Alexander Pope

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are…

— Alexander Pope

What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

— Alexander Pope

I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard…

— Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,…

— Alexander Pope

No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not…

— Alexander Pope

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

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight…

— Alexander Pope

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or…

— Alexander Pope

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one…

— Alexander Pope

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

— Alexander Pope

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

— Alexander Pope