And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,… — 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
