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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. By Alexander Pope Lent Show Veil Intent Half

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! By Alexander Pope Blest Papercredit Supply Fly Lends

Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind. By Alexander Pope Hope Hate Fear Joy Grief

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. By Alexander Pope Heavn Light Music Broken Quirks

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. By Alexander Pope Men Continually Youth Praise Time

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend. By Alexander Pope Long Heaven Send Health Youth

I find myself 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. By Alexander Pope Partyspirit Find Hoping Total End

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. By Alexander Pope Conceit Beauty Needless Improve Nature

Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick. By Alexander Pope Foot Page Grave Leave Verse

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine,Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mineFor me kind nature wakes her genial power,Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower. By Alexander Pope End Heavenly Bodies Shineearth Tis

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride,Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:If to her share some female errors fall,Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. By Alexander Pope Hide Faults Ease Face Forget

A naked lover bound and bleeding lies! By Alexander Pope Lies Naked Lover Bound Bleeding

Dogs, ye have had your day! By Alexander Pope Dogs Day

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)-Vital spark of heav'nly flame!Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame:Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!Stanza 1. By Alexander Pope Trembling Stanza Quit Soul Vital

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill. By Alexander Pope Fly Grapestone Kill Hair

Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land while here the ocean gains.In other parts it leaves wide sandy plainsThus in the soul while memory prevails,The solid power of understanding failsWhere beams of warm imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt awayOne science only will one genius fit,So vast is art, so narrow human witNot only bounded to peculiar arts,But oft in those confined to single partsLike kings, we lose the conquests gained before,By vain ambition still to make them moreEach might his several province well command,Would all but stoop to what they understand. By Alexander Pope Memory Nature Art Kings Understand

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. By Alexander Pope God Good Part Stage Die

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun. By Alexander Pope Spread Corruption Flood Withstood Avarice

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.[Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727] By Alexander Pope Riches Thoughts Subjects God People

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. By Alexander Pope Sickness Age State Sort Early

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. By Alexander Pope Left Work Art Theories Object

What so pure, which envious tongues will spare?Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair,With matchless impudence they style a wife,The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life;A bosom serpent, a domestic evil,A night invasion, and a mid-day devil;Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard,But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard. By Alexander Pope Curse Pure Spare Life Serpent

Music the fiercest grief can charm,And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease,And make despair and madness please;Our joys below it can improve,And antedate the bliss above. By Alexander Pope Music Disarm Fiercest Grief Charmand

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. By Alexander Pope Breath Glory Finds Repose Oerthrows

But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey. By Alexander Pope Arise Orion Sharp Time Boreas

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. By Alexander Pope Homer Excels Inventors Arts Swallowed

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. By Alexander Pope Sail Life Vast Ocean Diversely

She went from opera, park, assembly, play,To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day.To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,To muse, and spill her solitary tea,Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon,Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon. By Alexander Pope Park Assembly Opera Playto Walks

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural. By Alexander Pope Nature Art Observation Genius Persons

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. By Alexander Pope Disagree Charity Faith Hope World

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. By Alexander Pope Man Woman Love Friend Hates

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

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. By Alexander Pope Mourns Showers Hushed Birds Flowers

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. By Alexander Pope Reason Instinct Blest Enjoy Powr

And now, unveil'd, the Toilet stands display'd, Each silver Vase in mystic order laid. First, rob'd in white, the Nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the Cosmetic pow'rs. A heav'nly image in the glass appears, 125 To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears; Th' inferior Priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here By Alexander Pope Toilet Vase Unveil Display Laid

Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name:Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.Know thy own point: This kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.Submit In this, or any other sphere,Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear:Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r,Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see;All Discord, Harmony, not understood;All partial Evil, universal Good:And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite,One truth is clear, Whatever IS, is RIGHT. By Alexander Pope Direction Harmony Heavn Safe Art

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed! By Alexander Pope Oppressed Unites Rest Oppressor Grave

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. By Alexander Pope Excel Teach Censure Freely Written

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.Man, but for that no action could attend,And, but for this, were active to no end:Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. By Alexander Pope Reason Fix Selflove Propagate Meteorlike

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! By Alexander Pope Behold Frost Withered Lost Groves

There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true. By Alexander Pope Wholly Health Sickness Death War

Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd,Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd.Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies:O write it not, my hand - the name appearsAlready written - wash it out, my tears!In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays,Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes. By Alexander Pope Dear Fatal Gods Heart Hand

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery. By Alexander Pope Man Knowledge Perfection Misery Pride

Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day,Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play:How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie,How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry. By Alexander Pope Poetic Justice Scalewhere Balance Truth

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of senseWeigh thy Opinion against Providence;Call Imperfection what thou fancy'st such,Say, here he gives too little, there too much;Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,(9)Yet cry, If Man's unhappy, God's unjust;If Man alone ingross not Heav'n's high care,Alone made perfect here, immortal there:Snatch from his hand the balance(10) and the rod,Re-judge his justice, be the GOD of GOD! By Alexander Pope Man God Providence Call Destroy

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. By Alexander Pope Praise Undeserved Disguise Satire

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years. By Alexander Pope Antiquaries Pore Inscription Adore Rust

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore;What future bliss He gives not thee to know,But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. By Alexander Pope Death Wait God Soar Teacher

Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to reach you at this distance. By Alexander Pope Miles Truth Things Distance Flattery

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. By Alexander Pope Amaze Style Unlearn Smile Labour

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. By Alexander Pope Faultless Piece Neer Eer

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry. By Alexander Pope Gems Pretty Conceptions Fine Metaphors

But touch me, and no minister so sore.Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky timeSlides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,And the sad burthen of some merry song. By Alexander Pope Offends Verse Song Touch Minister

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last. By Alexander Pope Wrong Past Positive Persisting Fops

See how the World its Veterans rewards!A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards;Fair to no purpose, artful to no end,Young without Lovers, old without a Friend;A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot;Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot. By Alexander Pope Frolics Cards Fair Lovers Friend

Astrologers that future fates foreshow. By Alexander Pope Astrologers Foreshow Future Fates

Thrice rung the bell, the slipper knock'd the ground, And the press'd watch return'd a silver sound. Belinda still her downy pillow prest, Her guardian SYLPH prolong'd the balmy rest: By Alexander Pope Thrice Bell Ground Sound Rung

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. By Alexander Pope Love Sylvia Eyes Gain Prizeand

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste? By Alexander Pope Strange Tis Enjoy Taste Neer

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. By Alexander Pope Short Flutters Springs Wings Joy

Consult the genius of the place in all;That tells the waters or to rise, or fall;Or helps th' ambitious hill the heav'ns to scale,Or scoops in circling theatres the vale;Calls in the country, catches opening glades,Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades,Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending lines;Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs. By Alexander Pope Calls Paints Designs Consult Rise

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. By Alexander Pope Christian Knew Man Life Bear

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. By Alexander Pope Oppressed Blessed Elated Dejected

Never elated while one man's oppress'd;Never dejected while another's blessed. By Alexander Pope Oppress Blessed Elated Man Dejected

When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought. By Alexander Pope Mutable Permanent Thine Sacrificed Prize

Of little use, the man you may suppose,Who says in verse what others say in prose;Yet let me show a poet's of some weight,And (though no soldier) useful to the state,What will a child learn sooner than a song?What better teach a foreigner the tongue?What's long or short, each accent where to placeAnd speak in public with some sort of grace? By Alexander Pope Prose Weightand Soldier Song Tongue

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall. By Alexander Pope Fate Men Prescrib State Creatures

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,Is virtue's prize. By Alexander Pope Sunshine Prize Earthly Destroythe Soul

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. By Alexander Pope Shades Life Lights Wellaccorded Strife

The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer. By Alexander Pope Homer Scriptures Dignified Simplicity Noble

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them By Alexander Pope Time Run Chances Stop Taking

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. By Alexander Pope Seas Suns Rise Earth Skies

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. By Alexander Pope Faction Sect Party Whatsoever Violent

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. By Alexander Pope Heavn Aid Lover Maid Taught

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. By Alexander Pope Leaves Fruit Sense Words Found

In death a hero, as in life a friend! By Alexander Pope Hero Friend Death Life

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind. By Alexander Pope Talk Taste Friend Mind Find

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite. By Alexander Pope Rest Invite Polite Cushion Soft

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out. By Alexander Pope Bottles Narrownecked Noise Make Pouring

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. By Alexander Pope Absent Dead Dear Friend

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. By Alexander Pope Heaven Order Law Confessed Greater

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. By Alexander Pope Nature God Soul Parts Stupendous

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. By Alexander Pope Left Fate Binding Nature Fast

Honour forbid! at whose unrivall'd shrine 105 Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! 110 How shall I, then, your helpless fame By Alexander Pope Forbid Ease Honour Pleasure Virtue

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do. By Alexander Pope Degree Sit Chief Point Friendship

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. By Alexander Pope Sign Dine Hungry Judges Sentence

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. By Alexander Pope Hear Birds Spray Day Evry

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. By Alexander Pope Poets Painters Grace Part Art

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. By Alexander Pope Ease Content Calm Glow Joy

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. By Alexander Pope Succeeds Breeds Disease Luxury Evry

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. By Alexander Pope Beaux Toyshop Wigs Swordknots Coaches

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything. By Alexander Pope Saint Learn Wise Lawn King

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart. By Alexander Pope Chloe Pleasing Part Heart Evry

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul. By Alexander Pope Common Heaven Thro Evry Blessing

Roar'd for the handkerchief that caus'd his pain. But see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost! The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: 110 With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heav'n decrees! with heav'n who can contest? By Alexander Pope Roar Pain Handkerchief Caus Prize

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age. By Alexander Pope Age Patriot Fool Evry

Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear ... By Alexander Pope Thy Hear Tear Evry Voice

Some to conceit alone their taste confine,And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line;Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. By Alexander Pope Pleas Line Fit Wit Conceit

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. By Alexander Pope Parts Sense Soul Follow Evry

The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade. By Alexander Pope Light Glade Shade Approach Night

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain By Alexander Pope Death Chain Evn Remain Break

foreign Tyrants and of Nymphs at home; Here thou, great ANNA! whom three realms obey. Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes Tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a Court; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; 15 At ev'ry word a reputation dies. By Alexander Pope Anna Tyrants Foreign Home Thou

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,And now a bubble burst, and now a world. By Alexander Pope God Eye Perish Burst World

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know. By Alexander Pope Physicians Friends General Amiable Companions

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. By Alexander Pope Wit Majesty Simplicity Quaintness

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. By Alexander Pope Wit Beauty Parts Trust Creep

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true,But are not critics to their judgment, too? By Alexander Pope Authors Wit Tis Judgment Partial

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. By Alexander Pope Cursed Verse Flow Foe Eer

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. By Alexander Pope Chiefs Engage Time Age Rejoice

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them. By Alexander Pope Young Natural Friend Lover Persons

Is not absence death to those who love? By Alexander Pope Love Absence Death

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other. By Alexander Pope Writing Good Tend Mankind

While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. By Alexander Pope Sleep Pensive Poets Painful Vigils

Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love? By Alexander Pope Fame Wealth Honour Love

For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast ... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes). By Alexander Pope Cups Crackle Round Coffee Board

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. By Alexander Pope God Nature Slave Sect Road

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:Walk sober off, before a sprightlier ageComes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage. By Alexander Pope Walk Learn Play Lov Ate

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. By Alexander Pope Alexandrine Thought Song Snake Drags

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. By Alexander Pope Venus Mercury Love Rise Seldom

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. By Alexander Pope Great Acorns Oaks Grow Green

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow. By Alexander Pope Oft Furbelow Dreams Invention Bestow

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. By Alexander Pope Face Rest Cherub Reptile

Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought. By Alexander Pope Heavn Imperfect Fault Man Perfect

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. By Alexander Pope Spread Learn Sail Oar Gale

In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain. By Alexander Pope Strain Complain Sadly Pleasing Warbling

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please. By Alexander Pope Die Live Maintain Ease Friends

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same. By Alexander Pope God Frame Nature Linked Genral

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. By Alexander Pope Tenth Nature Strike Thousandth Breaks

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. By Alexander Pope King Author Ceremoniously Unfaithfully Moment

A mighty maze! But not without a plan. By Alexander Pope Maze Mighty Plan

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. By Alexander Pope God Destroy Gust Cry Unhappy

Ye gods, annihilate but space and time,And make two lovers happy. By Alexander Pope Gods Annihilate Happy Space Timeand

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. By Alexander Pope Happy Bound Content Ground Man

Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath. By Alexander Pope Soft Breathe Beneath Oer Shrouds

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. By Alexander Pope Soft Blows Strain Zephyr Gently

If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to. By Alexander Pope God Money People

Most authors steal their works, or buy. By Alexander Pope Works Buy Authors Steal

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change. By Alexander Pope Methinks Loving Prosperity Change Merit

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. By Alexander Pope Jews Christians Sleep Heavy Sabbath

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship. By Alexander Pope Friendship Cabinets Sick Closets Dead

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart By Alexander Pope Genius Heart Wake Soul Tender

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. By Alexander Pope Weakness Heavn Point Kind Blindness

And see, my son! the hour is on its way,That lifts the Goddess to imperial sway;This favourite isle, long severed from her reign,Doveline, she gathers to her wings again By Alexander Pope Son Goddess Sway Isle Long

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it. By Alexander Pope Hesperian Woman Husband Fruit Man

I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not. By Alexander Pope God Fear Damn Person Charity

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. By Alexander Pope Fix Nutrition Propagate Rot Plant

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. By Alexander Pope Pours Caesar Forms Ocean Storms

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. By Alexander Pope Sense Fine Exalted Half Common

The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain. By Alexander Pope Ended Plain Dances Fairy Train

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day. By Alexander Pope Eat Dreams Day Custard

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. By Alexander Pope False Money True Occasions Touch

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature. By Alexander Pope Nature Art Persons Genius Capable

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print. By Alexander Pope Bedlam Exile Mint Lee Budgel

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. By Alexander Pope Bear Turk Throne Brother

Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease! By Alexander Pope Dear Damned Farewell Distracting Town

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd By Alexander Pope World Lot Forgetting Mind Accepted

What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little? By Alexander Pope Meat Inquire Fire Clothes Riches

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains,'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains:And grant the bad what happiness they would,One they must wantwhich is, to pass for good. By Alexander Pope Tis Vice Virtue Count Advantage

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last. By Alexander Pope Cast Louder Shrieks Pitying Heaven

For who can move when fair Belinda fails? Not half so fix'd the Trojan could remain, 5 While Anna begg'd and Dido rag'd in vain. Then grave Clarissa graceful wav'd her fan; Silence ensu'd, and thus the nymph began. By Alexander Pope Belinda Fails Move Fair Silence

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. By Alexander Pope Reason People Learn Understand

Trade it may help, society extend,But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:It raises armies in a nation's aid,But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd. By Alexander Pope Pirate Trade Society Ant Friend

On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. By Alexander Pope December Blow Snow Cold Fragrant

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. By Alexander Pope Revived Stones Form Live Sculpture

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. By Alexander Pope Death Hell Bound Eternal Wound

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan. By Alexander Pope John Awake Expatiate Leave Kings

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. By Alexander Pope Save Knave Ambition Destroy Patriot

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. By Alexander Pope Live Grave Rich Noble Knave

Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass -That secret to each fool - that he's an ass.The truth once told (and whereby should we lie?),The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.You think this cruel? Take it for a rule,No creature smarts so little as a fool. By Alexander Pope Dunciad Midas Fool Pass Told

Is 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? By Alexander Pope Beer Poetess Peer Cross Engross

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us. By Alexander Pope Justice Man Present Reason Divine

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. By Alexander Pope Charm Sight Soul Strikes Merit

What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail. By Alexander Pope Dear Goodhumor Remains Lose Airs

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. By Alexander Pope Pleased Food Blood Crops Flowery

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. By Alexander Pope Thy Today Reason Play Lamb

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin. By Alexander Pope Houses Reforming Ruin Observing Abroad

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys. By Alexander Pope Charms Sways Rules Cools Accepting

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes. By Alexander Pope Contracts Difference Great Optics Objects

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed. By Alexander Pope Men Concealed Conversing Safely Concealing

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. By Alexander Pope Injury Superior Brave Man Power

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. By Alexander Pope Chaste Husband Frank Mistress Bride

The bodkin, comb, and essence to prepare? For this your locks in paper durance bound, For this with tort'ring irons wreath'd around? 100 For this with fillets strain'd your tender head, And bravely bore the double loads of lead? By Alexander Pope Comb Bodkin Prepare Essence Bound

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. By Alexander Pope Critics Prey Carrion Birds Natural

No, fly me, fly me, far as pole from pole;Rise Alps between us! and whole oceans roll!Ah, come not, write not, think not once of me,Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee. Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign; Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine. Fair eyes, and tempting looks (which yet I view!) Long lov'd, ador'd ideas, all adieu! By Alexander Pope Fly Rise Alps Pole Forget

A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again. By Alexander Pope Spring Pierian Deep Learning Dangerous

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later. By Alexander Pope Anxious Needless Knowing Sooner Solicitude

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove? By Alexander Pope Man Presumptuous Jove Blinder Satellites

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. By Alexander Pope Calm Thinking Villains Fix Politics

Thus unlamented pass the proud away,The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glowFor others' good, or melt at others' woe. By Alexander Pope Day Good Woe Others Unlamented

To be, contents his natural desire,He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,His faithful dog shall bear him company.Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of senseWeigh thy opinion against Providence. By Alexander Pope Providence Contents Wing Fire Admitted

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold? By Alexander Pope Britain Stand Greek Roman Conscious

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won. By Alexander Pope Vigour Vaunts Won Race

Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea. By Alexander Pope Anna Thou Great Dost Obey

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made,One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade,The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd,The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. By Alexander Pope Fortune Rags Apron Parson Friar

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score. By Alexander Pope Men Part Past Score Chronicles

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines! By Alexander Pope Sonneteer Woeful Stuff Madrigal Starved

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. By Alexander Pope Love Free Air Wings Flies

To err is human; to forgive divine.Alexander Pope"Excerpt From: Moriarty, Liane. "The Husband's Secret. By Alexander Pope Moriarty Liane Pope Excerpt Human

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. By Alexander Pope Rogues Ruffles Rags Countenance

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. By Alexander Pope Homer Coming Speed Guest Hold

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. By Alexander Pope Covetousness Things Consequence Character Man

The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, with reverential Awe,At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-''Nothing is sacred now but Villainy'- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I By Alexander Pope Worth Wisdom Cheats Law Truth

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair. By Alexander Pope Fair Ensnare Hair Tresses Man

Index-learning turns no student pale,Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. By Alexander Pope Science Indexlearning Indexes Turns Student

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? By Alexander Pope Smit Falcon Stooping Plumage Spare

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. By Alexander Pope Fame Breath Death Fancy Life

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to seeMen not afraid of God afraid of me. By Alexander Pope God Afraid Proud Seemen

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. By Alexander Pope Esteem Judges Gold Sold Senates

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven. By Alexander Pope Scripture Father Men Lantern Phrase

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains. By Alexander Pope Undiscerning Fortune Fickle Reigns Scatters

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at. By Alexander Pope Slanderers People Characters Injured Find

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose. By Alexander Pope Exclaims Man Things Mine Replies

How index-learning turns no student pale,Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! By Alexander Pope Tail Indexlearning Turns Student Paleyet

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be! By Alexander Pope Tis Loved Avails Related Art

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. By Alexander Pope Publish Pardon Burned Prais Hope

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join. By Alexander Pope Deplore Full Feel Unaw Precepts

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. By Alexander Pope Reason Passion Weaves Undone

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel. By Alexander Pope Gods Angels Men Pride Houses

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness. By Alexander Pope Force Grace Conciseness Arguments Instructions

CeliaCelia, we know, is sixty-five,Yet Celia's face is seventeen;Thus winter in her breast must live,While summer in her face is seen.How cruel Celia's fate, who henceOur heart's devotion cannot try;Too pretty for our reverence,Too ancient for our gallantry! By Alexander Pope Celia Celiacelia Face Seventeen Fate

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. By Alexander Pope Pardon Absurdities Suffer Worse Fools

With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse. By Alexander Pope Reverse Wrong Mistake Life Worse

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. By Alexander Pope God Fame Builds Church Mark

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. By Alexander Pope Tully True Disputing Peace War

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth. By Alexander Pope Perform Excuses Find Making Shed

No craving void left aching in the soul. By Alexander Pope Soul Craving Void Left Aching

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. By Alexander Pope Works Writings Men Judge Authors

How happy he, who free from careThe rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air,In his own grounds By Alexander Pope Contented Courts Towns Grounds Happy

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe. By Alexander Pope Ladies Tulips Showtis Owe Variegated

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. By Alexander Pope Make Observer Sake Observations Grow

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. By Alexander Pope Fools Tread Rush Angels Fear

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. By Alexander Pope Piety Maker Saints Givn Heavn

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too. By Alexander Pope Due Crowns Triumphs Generals Reserved

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. By Alexander Pope Smooth Die Waves Play Soften

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. By Alexander Pope Satire Weapon Meet Discreet Run

Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. By Alexander Pope Swift Tyrian Supply Dye Eel

This Nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourish'd two Locks, which graceful hung behind 20 In equal curls, and well conspir'd to deck With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck. By Alexander Pope Nymph Nourish Locks Mankind Curls

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades. By Alexander Pope Elysian Soul Fades Shades Dismiss

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source. By Alexander Pope Dive Judge Effect Center Detect

Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake By Alexander Pope Men Rake Business Pleasure Woman

Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man. By Alexander Pope God Thyself Presume Scan Man

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! By Alexander Pope Lulled Brain Chain Awake Rise

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. By Alexander Pope Fly Die Fight Choice Left

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach. By Alexander Pope Exact Long Comedy Teach Preach

To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor. By Alexander Pope Printer Tailor Buy Books Make

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. By Alexander Pope Alas Scarce Lawyer Scribe Small

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well? By Alexander Pope Heavn Crime Love

On wings of wind came flying all abroad. By Alexander Pope Abroad Wings Wind Flying

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. By Alexander Pope Fear Raise Praise Anger Wise

Die of a rose in aromatic pain. By Alexander Pope Die Pain Rose Aromatic

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you. By Alexander Pope Enemy Read Works Order Mend

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? By Alexander Pope Remove Gods Shepherds Shun Noonday

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great. By Alexander Pope Man God Mankind Presume Scan

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. By Alexander Pope France Teach Fiddle Dance Import

Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try,And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;But wives, a random choice, untried they take;They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away,And all the woman glares in open day. By Alexander Pope Horses Thou Sayst Buy Wives

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery. By Alexander Pope Wit Expression Delivery Conversation Readiness

Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn. By Alexander Pope Adorn Thorn Opening Roses Knotted

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n. By Alexander Pope Man Eye Fly Microscopic Reason

Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle. By Alexander Pope Matter Genuine Principle Religion Feeling

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'dWhat 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 mind.As shades more sweetly recommend the light,So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. By Alexander Pope Wit Nature True Thought Express

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed. By Alexander Pope Live Young Proposed Slavishly Employed

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. By Alexander Pope Grave Sing Thing Authors Witty

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. By Alexander Pope Courtship Wake Dream Wedlock

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know. By Alexander Pope Sing Season Cease

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! By Alexander Pope Lost Love Gloom Warm Withring

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead! By Alexander Pope Waste Years Wild Alldevouring Rome

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends. By Alexander Pope Person Leagues Allies Ladies Pieces

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety! By Alexander Pope Break Vile Dread Order Pride

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order. By Alexander Pope Clockwork Depending Motions Order Nicest

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it. By Alexander Pope Study Capable Delighting Application

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend. By Alexander Pope Statesman Friend Truth Sincere Faithful

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. By Alexander Pope Man Find Great Deal Gratitude

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. By Alexander Pope Undertakes Lie Great Task Forced

Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. By Alexander Pope Trees Whereer Glade Shade Walk

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings. By Alexander Pope Listning Daphne Larks Sings Wings

In vain sedate reflections we would makeWhen half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. By Alexander Pope Snatch Vain Sedate Reflections Makewhen

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. By Alexander Pope Unknown Aid Greatest Made Served

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it. By Alexander Pope Die Ground Ashamed Leave Build

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. By Alexander Pope Pate Knock Wit Home Beat

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. By Alexander Pope Live Purchase Pain Joy Give

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor. By Alexander Pope Mammom Store Poor Pale Pine

Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind. By Alexander Pope Whateer Talents Designed Mind Howeer

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. By Alexander Pope Giving Advice Times Privilege Foolish

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. By Alexander Pope Fit Art Wit Science Genius

Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last. By Alexander Pope Poets Inscriptions Greater Subdu Part

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. By Alexander Pope Heaven Good Sense Science Fairly

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. By Alexander Pope Envy Ignoble Slave Brave Mind

He best can paint them who shall feel them most. By Alexander Pope Paint Feel

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. By Alexander Pope Dying Symptoms Hundred Good

Intestine war no more our passions wage,And giddy factions bear away their rage. By Alexander Pope Intestine Rage War Passions Wageand

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn. By Alexander Pope Straw Thing Tool Enemies Property

Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. By Alexander Pope Spirits Militia Unnumber Fly Sky

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things, ... By Alexander Pope Things Dire Offence Amrous Springswhat

Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. By Alexander Pope Vales Bruised World Harmoniously Confused

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. By Alexander Pope Indian God Clouds Wind Poor

Interspersed in lawn and opening glades,Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades. By Alexander Pope Interspersed Shades Lawn Opening Gladesthin

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. By Alexander Pope Morality Religion Blushing Veils Fires

That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Aetherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees ... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part ... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood ... All partial Evil, universal Good ... By Alexander Pope Great Aetherial Warms Sun Breeze

In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. By Alexander Pope British Indian Instructive Past Ball

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous. By Alexander Pope Learning Mercury Hands Unskillful Mischievous

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:Be not the first by whom the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. By Alexander Pope Alike Words Fashions Hold Fantastic

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. By Alexander Pope Admitted Sky Company Equal Faithful

Nor 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 hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;And universal darkness buries all. By Alexander Pope Thy Flame Private Dares Shine

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature. By Alexander Pope Physician Ordure Approves Science Nature

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. By Alexander Pope Obliged Flatterers Besieged Obliging Neer

So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try,Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky;Th'eternal snows appear already past,And the first clouds and mountains seem the last:But those attain'd, we tremble to surveyThe growing labours of the lengthen'd way;Th'increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes,Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! By Alexander Pope Alps Theternal Thincreasing Oer Vales

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes. By Alexander Pope Coronationrobes Tree Nobler Object Prince

Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys, By Alexander Pope Satire Sporus Alas Tremble Silk

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action. By Alexander Pope God Mad Ridiculous Piety Religion

The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more. By Alexander Pope Give Heaven Ajax Restore Light

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. By Alexander Pope Manners Fortunes Humors Climes Tenets

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? By Alexander Pope Sin Sense Offender Offence Lose

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best. By Alexander Pope Vigour Dies Youth

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. By Alexander Pope Sleep Death Swiftness Pace Twins

Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst,Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest,With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd,And wander'd in the solitary shade.The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'dWoman, the last, the best reserv'd of God. By Alexander Pope Adam God Eve Paradise Maker

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. By Alexander Pope Person Greatest Magnifying Glasses World

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. By Alexander Pope Ten Amiss Censure Wrong Writes

Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely. By Alexander Pope Judgement Art Invention Materials Wisely

To err is human, to forgive, divine. By Alexander Pope Divine Human Forgive Err

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;To err is human, to forgive, divine. By Alexander Pope Divine Goodnature Join Human Forgive

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. By Alexander Pope Patient Indulged Ancestors Blest Rest

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. By Alexander Pope Provocation Bad Strong Antipathy Good

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. By Alexander Pope Thing Men Capable Wise Cunning

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. By Alexander Pope Fly Dotard Sky Thy Wise

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water. By Alexander Pope Mind Faults Bottom Water Prove

Age and want sit smiling at the gate. By Alexander Pope Age Gate Sit Smiling

Every professional was once an amateur. By Alexander Pope Amateur Professional

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? By Alexander Pope Fate State Blind Future Mortal

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. By Alexander Pope Pole Indus Speed Soul Soft

Superstition is the spleen of the soul. By Alexander Pope Superstition Soul Spleen

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. By Alexander Pope Saint Lawn Crape

And empty heads console with empty sound. By Alexander Pope Sound Empty Heads Console

The zeal of fools offends at any time. By Alexander Pope Time Zeal Fools Offends

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. By Alexander Pope Content Unlearn View Knew Learn

An honest man's the noblest work of God By Alexander Pope God Honest Man Noblest Work

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might. By Alexander Pope Fight Question Business Field Prove

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see By Alexander Pope Direction Chance Thou Canst

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man. By Alexander Pope Write Rhyme Scrawl Scribble Man

Expression is the dress of thought. By Alexander Pope Expression Thought Dress

To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. By Alexander Pope Angry Revenge Fault

And little eagles wave their wings in gold. By Alexander Pope Gold Eagles Wave Wings

Health consists with temperance alone. By Alexander Pope Health Consists Temperance

That virtue only makes our bliss below,And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. By Alexander Pope Virtue Makes Bliss Belowand Knowledge

Truth needs not flowers of speech. By Alexander Pope Truth Speech Flowers

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. By Alexander Pope Fits Time Leave Passions Convulsion

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. By Alexander Pope Fed Virtue Starves Vice

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise? By Alexander Pope Rise Taught Heavendirected Spire

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? By Alexander Pope Write Ink Parents Sin Unknown

Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear. By Alexander Pope Atheists Apprehensions Dark Fear Put

But why insult the poor, affront the great?' A knave's a knave, to me, in every state. By Alexander Pope Poor Affront Great Insult Knave

I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? By Alexander Pope Sir Kew Pray Highness Dog

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore. By Alexander Pope Jews Wore Adore White Breast

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit,For works may have more with than does 'em good,As bodies perish through excess of blood. By Alexander Pope Modest Blood Plainness Sets Sprightly

When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report. By Alexander Pope Increase Clamour Report Rumours Abundance

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. By Alexander Pope Oft Heath Death Fall Air

By music minds an equal temper know,Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. ... Warriors she fires with animated sounds.Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds. By Alexander Pope High Low Music Minds Equal

Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go. By Alexander Pope Reach Genius Taste Learning

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. By Alexander Pope Learn Field Beasts Physic

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;Learn from the beasts the physic of the field;The arts of building from the bee receive;Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave. By Alexander Pope Learn Yield Field Receive Plow

See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! By Alexander Pope Mountains Truth Casuistry Fled Head

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. By Alexander Pope Numbers Lisp

Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. By Alexander Pope Oft Favours Extends Rejects Offends

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; ... In wit, as nature, what effects our hearts Is not th'exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. By Alexander Pope Survey Judge Wit Writ Moves

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. By Alexander Pope Brave Slave Wise Reasoning Lies

Vice is a monster of so frightful mienAs to be hated needs but to be seen;Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,We first endure, then pity, then embrace. By Alexander Pope Vice Oft Familiar Endure Pity

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. By Alexander Pope Nature Fate Laws Mark State

Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,First strip off all her equipage of Pride,Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brainMere curious pleasure or ingenious pain. By Alexander Pope Science Modesty Vanity Learning Luxury

The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old. By Alexander Pope Unbounded Earth Thames Seas Free

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. By Alexander Pope Man Humanity Body Broke Despise

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. By Alexander Pope Stealth Fame Good Blush Find

All forms that perish other forms supply,(By turns we catch the vital breath and die)Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,They rise, they break, and to that sea return. By Alexander Pope Supply Die Rise Break Return

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing. By Alexander Pope Vast Beast Thee Chain Natures

Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd. By Alexander Pope Expression Thought Suitable Express Dress

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day. By Alexander Pope Religion Day Wanting Make Rational

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. By Alexander Pope Forms Government Contest Fools Administered

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days! By Alexander Pope Farewell Luxurious Lobsternights Sober Studious

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends By Alexander Pope Ends Success Lover Toil Attendsfew

What if the foot, ordained the dust to tread, Or hand, to toil, aspired to be the head? What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind? By Alexander Pope Head Foot Ordained Tread Hand

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense,Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence.But Health consists with Temperance alone,And Peace, oh Virtue! Peace is all thy own. By Alexander Pope Health Virtue Temperance Peace Reason

Every woman is at heart a rake. By Alexander Pope Rake Woman Heart

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none! By Alexander Pope Unblemish Unknown Fame Grant Live

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;Thus unlamented let me die;Steal from the world, and not a stoneTell where I lie. By Alexander Pope Unseen Unknown Steal Live Die

Z - ds! damn the lock! 'fore Gad, you must be civil! Plague on't!'t is past a jest - nay prithee, pox! Give her the hair" - he spoke, and rapp'd his box. By Alexander Pope Gad Pox Damn Lock Fore

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. By Alexander Pope Man Hope Breast Blest Uneasy

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate. By Alexander Pope Great Estate World Bugbear Figure

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. By Alexander Pope Priests Princes Women Search Passion

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway. By Alexander Pope Love Men Find Women Fixed

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. By Alexander Pope Ruling Passion Conquers Reason

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest. By Alexander Pope Search Passion Clue Found Unravels

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away;Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce,Or who would learn one earthly thing of use? By Alexander Pope Night Smallpox Dance Dress Chased

I lose my patience, and I own it too,When works are censur'd, not as bad but new;While if our Elders break all reason's laws,These fools demand not pardon but Applause. By Alexander Pope Applause Elders Patience Censur Lose

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade,Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made. By Alexander Pope Critics Thro Holes Made Chequer

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. By Alexander Pope Understanding Man Vanity

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. By Alexander Pope Fool Greatest Advantage Thought Wit

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. By Alexander Pope Education Mind Forms Common Bent

Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pampered goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all. By Alexander Pope Nature Care Monarch Warmed Bear

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. By Alexander Pope Pretty Hairs Straws Dirt Grubs

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. By Alexander Pope Wit Dunces Dunce Wits

A pear-tree planted nigh:'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,And hung with dangling pears was every bough. By Alexander Pope Twas Nigh Bough Peartree Planted

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons. By Alexander Pope Informed Tis Spoken Seasons Times

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,And if I lose thy love, I lose my all. By Alexander Pope Lose Grace Zeal Love Calland

If I am right, Thy grace impartStill in the right to stay;If I am wrong, O, teach my heartTo find that better way! By Alexander Pope Thy Stay Wrong Teach Grace

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach. By Alexander Pope Music Poetry Reach Resembles Eachare

So upright Quakers please both man and God. By Alexander Pope God Quakers Upright Man

She sins with poets through pure love of wit By Alexander Pope Wit Sins Poets Pure Love

O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. By Alexander Pope Happiness Good Pleasure Ease Content

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. By Alexander Pope Commonplace World Romantic Admires Fine

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. By Alexander Pope Providence God Dominion Nature Final

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. By Alexander Pope Blessed Beatitude Man Expects Disappointed

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. By Alexander Pope Philosophy Heaven Leaned Beforeshrinks

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. By Alexander Pope Mercy Show Teach Woe Feel

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures. By Alexander Pope End Ambition Pleasures Begin People

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. By Alexander Pope Offense Sense Trifle Shows Great

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. By Alexander Pope Affairs Debts Prayers Born Courts

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. By Alexander Pope Finest Minds Metals Dissolve Easiest

First follow Nature, and your judgment frameBy her just standard, which is still the same:Unerring nature, still divinely bright,One clear, unchanged, and universal light,Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,At once the source, and end, and test of art. By Alexander Pope Nature Unerring Unchanged Force Standard

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. By Alexander Pope Remembrance Allied Reflection Thought Thin

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile By Alexander Pope Nile Witlings Numrous Halflearn Isle

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. By Alexander Pope Faults Exempt Overcome Advantage

I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken. By Alexander Pope Poets Good Deal Extenuate Fault

Of all the causes which conspire to blindMan's erring judgement, and misguide the mind,What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools. By Alexander Pope Pride Judgement Rules Fools Conspire

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. By Alexander Pope Gentle Joke Dullness Loves

Averse alike to flatter, or offend;Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. By Alexander Pope Averse Flatter Offend Faults Mend

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mindSees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;His soul proud Science never taught to strayFar as the solar walk or milky way. By Alexander Pope Indian God Science Clouds Wind