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
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — 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
