Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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
Teaches
Early
Sort
Teach
State
Age
Diffidence
States
Earthly
Sickness
More quotes by Alexander Pope
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
Alexander Pope
Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
Alexander Pope
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
Most women have no characters at all.
Alexander Pope
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope
You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
Alexander Pope
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
Alexander Pope
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
Alexander Pope
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
Alexander Pope
Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
Alexander Pope
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
Alexander Pope
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Alexander Pope
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
Alexander Pope
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Alexander Pope
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
Alexander Pope
With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
Alexander Pope
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
Alexander Pope
Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Alexander Pope
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
Alexander Pope
