For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
ALEXANDER POPEFor what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
ALEXANDER POPEYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPETo be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPEWhen we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
ALEXANDER POPEThis long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPEVices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEDo you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
ALEXANDER POPETo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPEThe laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPEOf all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
ALEXANDER POPEStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
ALEXANDER POPEA youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
ALEXANDER POPEIt often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
ALEXANDER POPE