Quote

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

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
Book
Pages
Men
Fate
Heav
Creatures
Prescribed
Present
Hides
State
Brutes
Suffering
Spirits
Spirit
Page
States
Suffer

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
To err is human to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
Alexander Pope
Image
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
Image
Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
Alexander Pope
Image
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
Alexander Pope
Image
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
Alexander Pope
Image
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
Image
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
Alexander Pope
Image
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
Alexander Pope
Image
To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
Alexander Pope
Image
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
Alexander Pope
Image
Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
Alexander Pope
Image
The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
Alexander Pope
Image
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Alexander Pope
Image
To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
Alexander Pope
Image
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
Alexander Pope
Image
Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
Alexander Pope
Image
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
Alexander Pope
Image
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope
Image
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
Alexander Pope