O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry… — 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
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness… — 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
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
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to… — 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
See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died. — 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
