First follow Nature, and your judgment frame Alexander Pope More Quotes by Alexander Pope More Quotes From Alexander Pope In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. Alexander Pope regardcompassends The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Alexander Pope veronica-marssoulhome Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Alexander Pope dustpridecharacter If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? Alexander Pope differentdresseswonder Intestine war no more our passions wage, Alexander Pope passionbearswar And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? Alexander Pope swearinginsultmen No creature smarts so little as a fool. Alexander Pope foolsmartlittles Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty! Alexander Pope libertytreegiving Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one. Alexander Pope selfadvicegiving To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor. Alexander Pope clothesmenbook But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost! Alexander Pope ambitioncrosseslost To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence. Alexander Pope magnificenceeconomicsbalance Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. Alexander Pope fatewiselaw So upright Quakers please both man and God. Alexander Pope quakermenreligion There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day. Alexander Pope togetherpeoplereligion All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. Alexander Pope flowerrainsky Thus unlamented pass the proud away, Alexander Pope woeproudpride A pear-tree planted nigh: Alexander Pope pearsfruittree Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. Alexander Pope voidpridesteps Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Alexander Pope understoodpleasureevil
