Alexander Pope Quotes
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.
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Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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'Boast not my fall (he cried), insulting foe! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low; Nor think to die dejects my lofty mind; All that I dread is leaving you behind! Rather than so, ah let me still survive, And burn in Cupid's flames - but burn alive.'
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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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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!
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The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it, added something new, And all who heard it, made Enlargements too, In ev'ry Ear it spread, on ev'ry Tongue it grew.
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Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
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Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend.
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'Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.
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Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
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I think it was a generous thought, and one that fow'd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.
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Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.
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A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.
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From old Belerium to the northern main.