 |
|
 |
 |
 |
Alexander Pope
Why did I...
Why did I write? what sin to me unknown
Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Who reasons wisely...
Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies.
Ye gods! annihilate...
Ye gods! annihilate but space and time.
And make two lovers happy.
Source: The...
Wit that can...
Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Source: Epistle to Dr....
Yes; I am...
Yes; I am proud, I must be proud to see
Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
Why has not...
Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
With too much...
With too much quickness ever to be taught;
With too much thinking to have common...
`With every pleasing,...
`With every pleasing, every prudent part,
Say, what can Chloe want?' - She wants a...
Words are like...
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely...
You beat your...
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come:
Knock as you please, there's no body at...
The bookful blockhead,...
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
For observations which...
For observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th'observer's sake.
Nature, and Nature's...
Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was...
There is a...
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
It is with...
It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his...
A little learning...
A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts...
All are but...
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Fools rush in...
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
Source: An Essay on Criticism ...
An honest man's...
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Source: An Essay on Man, 1734
--...
Fix'd like a...
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.