O happiness! our being's end and aim! Alexander Pope More Quotes by Alexander Pope More Quotes From Alexander Pope The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd Alexander Pope sunshineremembrancelove A little learning is a dangerous thing. Alexander Pope learningeducationknowledge What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. Alexander Pope delightcarewar All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed! Alexander Pope gratitudeeyeyellow The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Alexander Pope echoesseemssound You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. Alexander Pope painjoygiving Wine lets no lover unrewarded go. Alexander Pope wineloversfood I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Alexander Pope adversitychristiangod Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. Alexander Pope simplicitymenchildren How vast a memory has Love! Alexander Pope lovememorieslife Fools admire, but men of sense approve. Alexander Pope stupiditycriticismmen Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. Alexander Pope envyshadowsubstance Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn. Alexander Pope daughternaturelight Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Alexander Pope summermissing-yougoodbye Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. Alexander Pope flowereyesummer The most positive men are the most credulous. Alexander Pope successattitudepositive Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul. Alexander Pope alcoholwinedrinking The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. Alexander Pope vulgareggscooking 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 chainsbrainmemories On wrongs swift vengeance waits. Alexander Pope vengeancewaiting
