Alexander Pope Quotes
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Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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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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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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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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What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
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Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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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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What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
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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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The world recedes; it disappears! Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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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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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
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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 horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Ignobly vain, and impotently great.
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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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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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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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Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.