Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Ignobly vain, and impotently great.
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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?
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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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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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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
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The most positive men are the most credulous…
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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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.