Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. — 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
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives. — 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
When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above… — 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… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 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
No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. — 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
