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The soul's calm sunshine and heartfelt joy.
— Alexander Pope
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
— Alexander Pope
The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
— Alexander Pope
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends — Alexander Pope
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
— Alexander Pope
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
— Alexander Pope
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
— Alexander Pope
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
— Alexander Pope
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
— Alexander Pope
O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
— Alexander Pope
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
— Alexander Pope
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
— Alexander Pope
Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away. — Alexander Pope
But why insult the poor, affront the great?' A knave's a knave, to me, in every state. — Alexander Pope
Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
— Alexander Pope
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
— Alexander Pope
Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
— Alexander Pope
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,
Is virtue's prize. — Alexander Pope
In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
— Alexander Pope
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
— Alexander Pope
The villain's censure is extorted praise.
— Alexander Pope
To err is human; to forgive divine.Alexander Pope"
Excerpt From: Moriarty, Liane. "The Husband's Secret. — Alexander Pope
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
— Alexander Pope
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
— Alexander Pope
An honest man's the noblest work of God
— Alexander Pope
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
— Alexander Pope
What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
— Alexander Pope
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
— Alexander Pope
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
— Alexander Pope
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
— Alexander Pope
A perfect woman's but a softer man.
— Alexander Pope
Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
— Alexander Pope
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
— Alexander Pope
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
— Alexander Pope
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. — Alexander Pope
The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
— Alexander Pope
But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
— Alexander Pope
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
— Alexander Pope
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
— Alexander Pope
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
— Alexander Pope
All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
— Alexander Pope
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
— Alexander Pope
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. — Alexander Pope
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
— Alexander Pope
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
— Alexander Pope
It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.
— John Collings Squire
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
— Alexander Pope
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
— Alexander Pope
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
— Alexander Pope
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
— Alexander Pope
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
— Alexander Pope
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
— Alexander Pope
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
— Alexander Pope
All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety! — Alexander Pope
Wit and judgment often are at strife.
— Alexander Pope
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
— Alexander Pope
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
— Alexander Pope
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
— Alexander Pope
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
— Alexander Pope
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
— Alexander Pope
How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
— Alexander Pope
Every professional was once an amateur.
— Alexander Pope
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
— Alexander Pope
From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. — Alexander Pope
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
— Alexander Pope
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
— Alexander Pope
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
— Alexander Pope
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.
— Harold Bloom
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
— Alexander Pope
Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
— Alexander Pope
The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
— Alexander Pope
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
— Alexander Pope
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
— Alexander Pope
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
— Alexander Pope
No craving void left aching in the soul.
— Alexander Pope
The laughers are a majority.
— Alexander Pope
Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go.
— Alexander Pope
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
— Alexander Pope
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
— Alexander Pope
