Alexander Pope Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

  Alexander Pope

  War, Fighting, Might

  Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.259

• Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Wise, War

  Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (including His Translation of Homer). To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson”, p.233

• For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Fighting, Government

  Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.67

• Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

  Alexander Pope

  Fighting, Choices, Dies

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.460

• For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

  Alexander Pope

  Fighting, Life Is, Form

  Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.67

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