Alexander Pope Quotes
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Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.
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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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'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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I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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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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Ignobly vain, and impotently great.
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What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
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What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
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Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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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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Well, if our author in the wife offendsHe has a husband that will make amends;He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving,And sure such kind good creatures may be living.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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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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Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
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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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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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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.