What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little? Alexander Pope More Quotes by Alexander Pope More Quotes From Alexander Pope I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. Alexander Pope qualifications good-writers believe To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. Alexander Pope vulgarity-is razors block Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. Alexander Pope fine common-sense half What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. Alexander Pope ancestry coward blood Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you. Alexander Pope judging self order Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Alexander Pope shade arise tree Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally. Alexander Pope hate-him faults hate A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of. Alexander Pope good-nature men world Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four? Alexander Pope four should two For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. Alexander Pope prey natural bird I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. Alexander Pope prayer faith believe Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Alexander Pope laughter ambition son No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise. Alexander Pope silver saint dying Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. Alexander Pope dies fighting choices Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. Alexander Pope kings wise order Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. Alexander Pope scribes lawyer hurt Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. Alexander Pope and-love gold judging In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true Alexander Pope dew nice healing I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not. Alexander Pope charity littles giving The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. Alexander Pope years-ago thousand years
