Alexander Pope Quotes

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,
With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,
With too much quickness ever to be taught,
With too much thinking to have common thought:
You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Act well your part; there all the honour lies.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.

Be not the first by whom the new are tired, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Hang o'er the Box, and hover round the Ring. Think what an equipage thou hast in Air, 45 And view with scorn two Pages and a Chair.

Çdo krijesë që thahet, ushqim bëhet për të tjerë,
Jeta dhuron frymën, që vdekja e merr
Si shkumë deti prej materies sajuar,
Lindin, copëtohen e kthehen në valë, me detin për tu përqafuar.

With varying vanities, from ev'ry part, They shift the moving Toyshop of their heart; 100 Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.

Make use of every friend — and every foe.

The fool is happy that he knows no more

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrows all her rays from sense.

Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own

"One all-extending soul connects each being, greatest with the least; made beast in aid of man, and man in aid of beast; All served, all serving; nothing stands alone; the chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown".

All fools have still an itching to deride