Alexander Pope Quotations | Page 6

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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?

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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.