There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. — 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
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. — 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
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
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the… — 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
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
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,… — 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
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
