Quote

O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

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
Stills
Still
Even
Partake
Sake
Follow
Joy
Virtue
Secret

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
Alexander Pope
Image
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
Image
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
Alexander Pope
Image
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Alexander Pope
Image
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
Alexander Pope
Image
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
Alexander Pope
Image
The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
Alexander Pope
Image
Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
Alexander Pope
Image
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
Alexander Pope
Image
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
Alexander Pope
Image
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Alexander Pope
Image
If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
Alexander Pope
Image
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope
Image
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
Alexander Pope
Image
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
Alexander Pope
Image
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
Image
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Alexander Pope
Image
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
Alexander Pope
Image
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
Alexander Pope