Alexander Pope Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Order is heaven's first law.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Math, Order

  1733 An Essay on Man, epistle to 4, l.49.

• No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Husband, Loss

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.76, Routledge

• Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

  Alexander Pope

  Book, Fate, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1820). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which are Added the Universal Prayer, Messiah, and Elegy”, p.7

• 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

• Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

  Alexander Pope

  Heaven, Seven, Good Sense

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.385

• Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Kings, Order

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.109

• Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

  Alexander Pope

  Father, Dark, Men

  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.389

• Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Heaven, Stealing

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1851). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.115

• All other goods by fortune's hand are given,
  A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

  Alexander Pope

  Marriage, Hands, Wife

  "The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope".

• Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

  Alexander Pope

  Heaven, Taught, Spires

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.243

• Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Order, Law, Heaven

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.300, Oxford University Press

• Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace
  To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Race, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

• Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Silence, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.353

• Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Heaven, Weakness

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.21

• Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Long, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.419

• Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Blessing, Heaven, Soul

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.175

• Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

  Alexander Pope

  Future, Circles, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1820). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which are Added the Universal Prayer, Messiah, and Elegy”, p.7

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