Quote

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

Alexander Pope

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
Serves
Brother
Gets
Rest
Best
Nearer

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
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.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whatever is, is right.
Alexander Pope
Image
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
Alexander Pope
Image
Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Alexander Pope
Image
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
Alexander Pope
Image
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
Alexander Pope
Image
And empty heads console with empty sound.
Alexander Pope
Image
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
Alexander Pope
Image
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.
Alexander Pope
Image
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
Alexander Pope
Image
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope
Image
Expression is the dress of thought.
Alexander Pope
Image
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Alexander Pope
Image
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.
Alexander Pope
Image
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
Image
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
Alexander Pope
Image
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
Alexander Pope
Image
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.
Alexander Pope
Image
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Alexander Pope
Image
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope