Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy… — 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
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they… — 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
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: This kind, this due… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“ Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his… — 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
