Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But… — 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
Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?… — 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
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