Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. Alexander Pope More Quotes by Alexander Pope More Quotes From Alexander Pope Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth. Alexander Pope silence self heaven 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! Alexander Pope powerful fall moving Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. Alexander Pope light spirit sky What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little? Alexander Pope clothes fire giving And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. Alexander Pope binding fate humans But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey. Alexander Pope dew blow winter Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. Alexander Pope women sad hate Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Alexander Pope amber devil hair Nor in the critic let the man be lost. Alexander Pope he-man lost men The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. Alexander Pope wife ease long Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, Alexander Pope body may blood Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Alexander Pope errors judging world Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence. Alexander Pope scales opinion wisdom Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. Alexander Pope calm dark thinking Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. Alexander Pope strange vices thinking The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth. Alexander Pope wit warfare earth What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Alexander Pope wise evil night Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! Alexander Pope frost shining winter The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all. Alexander Pope hog swine lord Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. Alexander Pope morrow cheerful rays
