Alexander Pope Quotes on World (12 Quotes)


    Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell,
    When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell?

    See how the world its veterans rewards A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.

    Edward and Henry, now the boast of fame,
    And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name,
    After a life of gen'rous toils endur'd,
    The Gaul subdu'd, or property secur'd,
    Ambition humbled, mighty cities storm'd,
    Or laws establish'd, and the world reform'd;
    Clos'd their long glories with a sigh, to find
    Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

    Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir Yes she has one, I must aver When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf and does not hear.

    The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.



    Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

    Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

    Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.

    Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
    Thus unlamented let me dye;
    Steal from the world, and not a stone
    Tell where I lye.

    But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.

    Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.


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