Why pique all mortals, yet affect a name?
(Epistle II: To A Lady (of The Characters Of Women))
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake Men, some to quiet, some to public strife But every lady would be queen for life.Alexander Pope
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Alexander Pope
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Alexander Pope
Poets heap Virtues, Painters Gems at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Alexander Pope
In Prospects, thus, some Objects please our Eyes,
Which out of Nature's common Order rise,
The shapeless Rock, or hanging Precipice.
Alexander Pope
In every age,
In ev'ry clime ador'd,
By saint, by savage, and by sage,
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
Alexander Pope
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