But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. — 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
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
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are… — 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
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors… — 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
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once… — 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
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
