Alexander Pope Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Giving, Joy

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

• Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Pain, Women

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

• We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, People, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.236

• Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
  Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore;
  What future bliss He gives not thee to know,
  But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

  Alexander Pope

  Hope, Teacher, Blessing

  Alexander Pope (1764). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.12

• Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Past, Men

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.125

• Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Prayer, Children

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.397

• The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

  Alexander Pope

  Ajax, Light, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.372, Lulu.com

• I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Charity, Littles

  "The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Imitations of Horace".

• True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Sight, Giving

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

• While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

  Alexander Pope

  Sleep, Giving, Painful

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 1, l. 93

• The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Differences, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1846). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes”, p.61

• The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Color, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.23

• Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Giving, Deny

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.277, Oxford University Press

• What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
  The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,
  Is virtue's prize.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Sunshine, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.137

• What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

  Alexander Pope

  Fire, Clothes, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.238

• Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, Giving, Literature

  Alexander Pope (1794). “The works of Alexander Pope, with remarks and illustrations. By G. Wakefield”, p.245

• Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Tree, Liberty

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.40

• No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Pain, Eye

• Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Giving, Advice

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122

• I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

  Alexander Pope

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  Alexander Pope (1961). “Poems: Pastoral poetry, and An essay on criticism”

• When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Alive, Charity

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.159

• The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, World, Fool

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.230

• Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Giving, Society

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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