Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. — 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
“let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent… — 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
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
