It 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 POPEDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
-
-
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE -
All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPE -
The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
ALEXANDER POPE -
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE -
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPE -
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 -
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
ALEXANDER POPE -
When 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 POPE -
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE -
He 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 POPE -
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
ALEXANDER POPE