Quote

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

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
Flower
Herbs
Power
Pride
Shine
Earth
Whose
Heavenly
Body
Answers
Bodies
Every
Asks
Shining
Genial
Kind
Use
Spread
Herb
Nature
Mines
Spreads
Mine
Wakes
Ends

More quotes by 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
See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
Alexander Pope
Image
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
Alexander Pope
Image
With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
Alexander Pope
Image
Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Alexander Pope
Image
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
Alexander Pope
Image
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
Alexander Pope
Image
To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
Alexander Pope
Image
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
Alexander Pope
Image
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Alexander Pope
Image
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Alexander Pope
Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope
Image
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Alexander Pope
Image
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
Alexander Pope
Image
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
Alexander Pope
Image
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
Alexander Pope
Image
So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
Image
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Alexander Pope