Quote

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

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
Passions
Rage
Bear
Bears
Intestine
Passion
Intestines
War
Giddy
Away
Factions
Wage

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
Alexander Pope
Image
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
Alexander Pope
Image
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
Alexander Pope
Image
Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
Alexander Pope
Image
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
Alexander Pope
Image
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
Alexander Pope
Image
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
Alexander Pope
Image
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Alexander Pope
Image
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
Image
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Alexander Pope
Image
Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
Alexander Pope
Image
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Alexander Pope
Image
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
Alexander Pope
Image
With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
Alexander Pope
Image
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
Alexander Pope
Image
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
Alexander Pope