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
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres'… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond… — 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
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it. — 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
I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. — 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
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. — 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
I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! — 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
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
