Alexander Pope Quotes

The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.

I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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.

How vast a memory has Love!

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

I am his Highness' Dog at Kew; Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are you?

Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.

A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

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

Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.

But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed:
Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed;
In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there,
At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where:
No creature owns it in the first degree,
But thinks his neighbour farther gone than he!