Best Alexander Pope Words
- How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even… Creatures
- It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. Advantage
- Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They… Air
- Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. Bliss
- For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read. All
- See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second… Aid
- Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. Bully
- A naked lover bound and bleeding lies! Bleeding
- Consult the Genius of the Place in all. All
- Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with… Abounding
- Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd… Action
- Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. Absent
- Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. Friend
- The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. Disease
- On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore. Adore
- For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. Employ
- For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong… All
- The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of… Affrighted
- Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,… Candid
- Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,… Age
- Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than… All
- And make each day a critic on the last. Critic
- Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence. All
- Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream; Dream
- Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Blood
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