Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Alexander Pope
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Learn
Nautilus
Littles
Oar
Little
Gale
Sail
Thin
Catch
Driving
Spread
More quotes by Alexander Pope
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.
Alexander Pope
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
Alexander Pope
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 glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
Alexander Pope
No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Alexander Pope
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
Alexander Pope
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander Pope
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
Alexander Pope
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
Alexander Pope
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
Alexander Pope
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
Alexander Pope
The zeal of fools offends at any time.
Alexander Pope
Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
Alexander Pope
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
Alexander Pope
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
Alexander Pope
A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
Alexander Pope
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Alexander Pope
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
Alexander Pope
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Alexander Pope
Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
Alexander Pope
