Best Alexander Pope Wisdom
- Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. Bewildered
- Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The… Ajax
- Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. Altar
- You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. Beat
- For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Burned
- When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless… Absoluteness
- The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be… Clock
- Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. Action
- Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. Catch
- With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. Common
- Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a… Alexandrine
- Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might. Business
- Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race,… Age
- These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! Enjoy
- The lot of man - to suffer and to die. Death
- Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best. Best
- Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days! Days
- As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. Bent
- No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What… Advantage
- On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. Beneath
- We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. Gives
- [T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?… Air
- That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in… All
- Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from… All
- I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not. Charity
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