Alexander Pope Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

  Alexander Pope

  Blood, Hands, Justice

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.6

• Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Kings, Ambition

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 1

• At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Divine Justice, Ideas

  Alexander Pope, Rosemary Cowler (1986). “The prose works of Alexander Pope: The major works, 1725-1744”

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