On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep. — 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
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just,… — 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
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
See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little… — 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… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right. — 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
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