Quote

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

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
Reason
Cool
Service
However
Call
Stays
Often
Serves
Care
Cares
Best
Near
Able
Till

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
Alexander Pope
Image
Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
Image
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Alexander Pope
Image
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
Image
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.
Alexander Pope
Image
All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope
Image
Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
Alexander Pope
Image
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.
Alexander Pope
Image
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Alexander Pope
Image
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope
Image
All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
Alexander Pope
Image
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
Alexander Pope
Image
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.
Alexander Pope
Image
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
Alexander Pope
Image
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
Alexander Pope
Image
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Alexander Pope
Image
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
Alexander Pope
Image
Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
Alexander Pope
Image
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
Alexander Pope
Image
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Alexander Pope