Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. — 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
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — 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
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without… — 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
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Once on a time, La Mancha's knight, they say, A certain bard encount'ring on the way, Discours'd in terms as just, with… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a… — 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
