Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPEAmusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPEConceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
ALEXANDER POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPEDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPEPhysicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
ALEXANDER POPEYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
ALEXANDER POPELulled 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 POPEBeauty draws us with a single hair.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPETo err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPEThis long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPE