Alexander Pope Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Every woman is at heart a rake.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Rakes, Intrigue

  1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.215-8.

• If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

  Alexander Pope

  Prayer, Heart, Grace

  Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.121

• Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
  Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Heart, Sheep

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.21

• 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?

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 9

• A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

  Alexander Pope

  Sarcastic, Heart, Brain

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 2, l. 44

• Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Heart, Men

  1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.215-8.

• To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Soul, Genius

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1

• "With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Chloe, Want

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.240

• To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Soul, Genius

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1

• Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Writing, Heart

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.108

• The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

  Alexander Pope

  Smart, Heart, Men

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.80

• To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

  Alexander Pope

  Teaching, Heart, Design

  Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1769). “Life comp. by Owen Ruffhead”, p.222

• Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Gay, Joy

  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.59

• Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit,
  There is no cure 'gainst age but it

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Wine, Age

• Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Lying, Stupid

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.247

• 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

• A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Tongue

  Alexander Pope, John Butt (1967). “The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer. Books I-XII”

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