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
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
But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call.… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,… — 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
Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis… — 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
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity;… — 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
