Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
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The stoic husband was the glorious thing.The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,And lov'd his country.
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Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.
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Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.
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The garlands fade, the vows are worn away; So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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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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Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.
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From old Belerium to the northern main.
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Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away!
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There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,-live in peace,-adieu.
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Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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If I am right, Thy grace import Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way!
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims, or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there. It gives one the image of a giant's den in a romance, bestrewed with scattered heads and mangled limbs.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die?