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

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Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
ALEXANDER POPE
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
ALEXANDER POPE
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ALEXANDER POPE
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
ALEXANDER POPE
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
ALEXANDER POPE
Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
ALEXANDER POPE
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
ALEXANDER POPE
Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
ALEXANDER POPE
Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
ALEXANDER POPE
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
ALEXANDER POPE
Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
ALEXANDER POPE
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE
What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE
No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
ALEXANDER POPE
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
ALEXANDER POPE
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE
Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
ALEXANDER POPE
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE
What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
ALEXANDER POPE
Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE
The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
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I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
ALEXANDER POPE
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where o...
ALEXANDER POPE
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
ALEXANDER POPE
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
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