Alexander Pope Quotes
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At every word a reputation dies.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.
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Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
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What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
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Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
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Let such, such only tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country and be poor.
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They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.
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Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.