Best Alexander Pope Qoutes
- Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. Canopy
- Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous. Excellent
- Dogs, ye have had your day! Calendars
- Wine lets no lover unrewarded go. Food
- Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course,… Action
- A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach. Acting
- There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. Acting
- Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. Advice
- Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Agriculture
- Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,… Ambition
- Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. Ambition
- What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. Alas
- Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. Bird
- Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Blame
- The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. Ago
- Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Catch
- Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. Been
- Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. Alas
- Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. Choice
- No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal… Dying
- At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist,… All
- Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. Art
- Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. Darkness
- But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. Avenger
- The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. Beam
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