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Alexander Pope
Some old men,...
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in...
The ruling passion,...
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
The people's voice...
The people's voice is odd,
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
Source:...
The hungry judges...
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Order is Heaven's...
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed,
Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,
More rich, more...
The Muse but...
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife,
To help me through this long disease, my...
The world forgetting,...
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Source: Eloisa to Abelard.
--...
The scripture in...
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of...
The many-headed monster...
The many-headed monster of the pit.
Source: Satires and Epistles of Horace...
Party-spirit . ....
Party-spirit . . . at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
The greatest magnifying...
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own...
The worst of...
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Source: Imitations of Horace, bk. 1,...
They dream in...
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The right divine...
The right divine of kings to govern wrong.
Source: The Dunciad, IV
-- Alexander...
Praise undeserved, is...
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Source: In
The spider's touch,...
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the...
There St John...
There St John mingles with my friendly bowl
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Tis with our...
Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
The vanity of...
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming...
Satan is wiser...
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Source:...