Alexander Pope Quotes, Long Quotes, Doubt Quotes

The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Long Quotes , Doubt Quotes

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Moving Quotes , Blow Quotes

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Passion Quotes , Reason Quotes

What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Fire Quotes , Clothes Quotes

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Fool Quotes

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Mean Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Giving Quotes , World Quotes

Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Food Quotes , Wine Quotes

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Balance Quotes , Magnificence Quotes

Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Sad Quotes , Hate Quotes

But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Summer Quotes , Shade Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Self Quotes , Giving Quotes

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Women Quotes , Contradiction Quotes

No craving void left aching in the soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Soul Quotes , Void Quotes

Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Brother Quotes , Made Quotes

The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Voice Quotes , People Quotes

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Courage Quotes , Men Quotes

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Money Quotes , Mean Quotes

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Dying Quotes , Saint Quotes

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Brother Quotes , Jealous Quotes