Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. — 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
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
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. — 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
A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. — 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
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act 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
