Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — 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
“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but mainly a woman hates a man for being her… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but many a woman hates a man for being only… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do… — 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
In men we various ruling passions find, In women, two almost divide the kind; Those, only fixed, they first orlast obey, The… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine… — 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
