Alexander PopeCareless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. 371Life
Alexander PopeTo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: Fo… ▶372HumanityLove
Alexander Pope'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ✨ Alexander Pope (2015). An Essay on Criticism, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing<… ▶361Truth
Alexander PopeA wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal. ✨ Alexander Pope (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated), p.829, … ▶372Love
Alexander PopeWith ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart. ✨ Alexander Pope (1873). The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Int… ▶362Love
Alexander PopeNever was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can. ✨ Alexander Pope (1850*). The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton, p.336373Death
Alexander PopeA little learning is a dangerous thing. ✨ An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2362Politics
Alexander PopeThe bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he … ▶373Reading
Alexander PopeWhat bosom beast not in his country's cause?352Death
Alexander PopeWhoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. ✨ 'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 253352Thought
Alexander PopeTrust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. ✨ Alexander Pope (1867). Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes, p.36374Life
Alexander PopeMusic resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). The Works of Al… ▶363Life
Alexander PopeSome judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. … ▶352Life
Alexander PopePleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. ✨ Alexander Pope (1829). An Essay on Man: And Other Poems, p.6352Humor
Alexander PopeAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. ✨ 'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 267375Hope
Alexander PopeLulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!375Thought
Alexander PopeIs there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross? ✨ Alexand… ▶375Life
Alexander PopeO peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.364Hope
Alexander PopeBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Note… ▶331LifeTruth
Alexander PopeA brain of feathers, and a heart of lead. ✨ 'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 2, l. 44343LoveThought
Alexander PopeA 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. ✨ Alexander Pope, Willi… ▶365LifePoliticsThought
Alexander PopeNew, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with N… ▶343Life
Alexander PopeTrue Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mi… ▶376ThoughtTruth
Alexander PopeWho sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. ✨ 'An Essay on Man' Epis… ▶332Thought
Alexander PopeEnvy will merit, as its shade, pursue ✨ Alexander Pope (2012). Essay on Man and Other Poems, p.16, Courier Corporation376Death
Alexander PopeIs it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well? ✨ 'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 6322Love
Alexander PopeNor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy ha… ▶355DeathHumanityReading
Alexander PopeThis long disease, my life. ✨ An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot l. 131 (1735)355Life
Alexander PopeThe vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. ✨ Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). A Supplementary Volume to the W… ▶311HumanityLife
Alexander PopeParty-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. ✨ Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander P… ▶322Philosophy
