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
No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other. — 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
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never… — 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
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt… — 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
