Quote

So perish all who do the like again.

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
Perish
Like

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
Alexander Pope
Image
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
Alexander Pope
Image
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
Alexander Pope
Image
Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander Pope
Image
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
Alexander Pope
Image
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
Alexander Pope
Image
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Alexander Pope
Image
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
Image
Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
Alexander Pope
Image
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
Alexander Pope
Image
Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
Alexander Pope
Image
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
Alexander Pope
Image
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Alexander Pope
Image
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
Alexander Pope
Image
What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
Alexander Pope
Image
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
Image
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
Alexander Pope
Image
A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
Alexander Pope
Image
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
Alexander Pope
Image
Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
Alexander Pope