Alexander Pope Quotes About Rage

Quotes about: Rage

• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Fear, Angel

  An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

• Now hollow fires burn out to black,
  And lights are fluttering low:
  Square your shoulders, lift your pack
  And leave your friends and go.
  O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
  Look not to left nor right:
  In all the endless road you tread
  There's nothing but the night.

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Night, Fire

• And die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Pain, Rage

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

• 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

• Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Butterfly, Atheism

• 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

• No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

  Alexander Pope

  Dying, Saint, Silver

  Alexander Pope, John Butt (1963). “Poems”, p.256, Yale University Press

• Music the fiercest grief can charm,
  And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease,
  And make despair and madness please;
  Our joys below it can improve,
  And antedate the bliss above.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Pain, Grief

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author”, p.15

• Intestine war no more our passions wage,
  And giddy factions bear away their rage.

  Alexander Pope

  War, Passion, Bears

  Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.161

• Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
  A being darkly wise and rudely great...
  He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;
  In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;
  In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
  Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Fear, Doubt

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.18

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