Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
What the weak head with stronger bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.Alexander Pope
From loveless youth to unrespected age,
No passion gratify'd except her Rage.
Alexander Pope
Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow,
Led through a sad variety of woe:
Now warm in love, now with'ring in thy bloom,
Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
Alexander Pope
What's fame A fancied life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Alexander Pope
Learn hence for Ancient Rules a just Esteem;
To copy Nature is to copy Them.
Alexander Pope
Above, how high, progressive life may go!
Alexander Pope
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