While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is… — 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
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. — 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
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
Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias… — 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
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
Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed. — 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
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
