Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another. — 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
But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today… — 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
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
