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Famous Alexander Pope Quotes
“Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.”
“Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?”
“Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.”
“Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.”
“Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.”
“O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.”
“The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.”
“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”
“Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.”
“That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.”
“Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.”
“Virtue alone is happiness below.”
“There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.”
“In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.”