Alexander Pope: Trending quotes (page 7)

“Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath,
The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death;
Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare,
They fall, and leave their little lives in air.”

Alexander Pope book Windsor Forest

Source: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 131.

Death , Feeling

“True politeness consists in the being easy one-self, and making every body about one as easy as we can.”

Alexander Pope

Statement of 1739, as quoted in Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) by Joseph Spence, p. 286.
Variant reported in Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men (1887) by Samuel Arthur Bent, p. 451: "True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."
Attributed

“Methinks God has punish'd the Avaritious as he often punishes sinners, in their own way, in the ver sin itself: the thrist of gain was their crime, that thrist continued became their punishment and ruin. As for the few who have the good fortune to remain with half of what they imagined they had (among whom is your humble servantl, I would have them sensible of their felicity, and convinced of the truth of old Hesiod's maxim, who, after half his estate was swallowed by the Directors of those days, resolv'd, that half to be more than the whole.”

Alexander Pope

In his letter to Atterbury Bishop of Rochester. Sept. 23. 1720.

God , Truth , Way , Imagination

“The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.”

Alexander Pope

Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).

Courage , Country

“This casket India's glowing gems unlocks
And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto I, line 134.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

Box

“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto III, line 21.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.”

Alexander Pope

"Ode on Solitude", st. 1 (c. 1700).

Happiness

“Say, is not absence death to those who love?”

Alexander Pope Pastorals

Autumn.
Pastorals (1709)

Love , Death

“Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.”

Alexander Pope

"Umbra", first published in Miscellanies (1727).

Home , Sense

“Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell,
For sober, studious days!”

Alexander Pope

"A Farewell to London" (1715), st. 1.

Night

“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”

Alexander Pope

Letter, written in collaboration with Dr John Arbuthnot, to Jonathan Swift (December 5, 1732) upon the death of John Gay.

God , Parting

“How vast a memory has Love!”

Alexander Pope

"Sappho to Phaon", line 52 (1712).

Love , Memory

“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.”

Alexander Pope book Windsor Forest

Source: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 11.

World , Water

“Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.”

Alexander Pope

Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

Passion , Time

“Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”

Alexander Pope

Closing line.
The Temple of Fame (1711)

“Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.”

Alexander Pope Pastorals

Summer, line 73.
Pastorals (1709)

Tree

“Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto I, line 15.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

Dogs , Lovers

“There various news I heard of love and strife,
Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,
Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,
Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,
Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,
Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,
Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,
The fall of favourites, projects of the great,
Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:
All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.”

Alexander Pope

Source: The Temple of Fame (1711), Lines 449-458.

Love , Life , Death , War

“I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

Alexander Pope

Letter to Edward Blount (27 August 1714); a similar expression in "Thoughts on Various Subjects" in Swift's Miscellanies (1727): Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.

Hope , Madness , Country

“A god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.”

Alexander Pope

Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica (1687); Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, Rule IV.
Misattributed

God , Fate , Nature