Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. — 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
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. — 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
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. — 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
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
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
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
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
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
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
Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought: — Alexander Pope Copy Share
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? — Alexander Pope Copy Share
