Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
Say first, of God above, or man below,What can we reason, but from what we know?
Alexander Pope
But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
Alexander Pope
He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd. Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way, By force to ravish, or by fraud betray; For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
Alexander Pope
Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew,
Not on the Cross my eyes were fix'd, but you:
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
Alexander Pope
All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
Alexander Pope
Atossa, curs'd with ev'ry granted pray'r,
Childless with all her Children, wants an Heir.
Alexander Pope
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