A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice -… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies. — 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
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
