Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream; — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. — 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
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. — 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
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. — 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
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — 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
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
Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. — 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
O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — 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
