1,083 Quotes by Alexander Pope

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor’d mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.

Hear how the birds, on ev’ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Is it, in Heav’n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover’s or a Roman’s part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil’d; if right, I kiss’d the rod.

The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?