Moral Essays Quotes

“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, Moral Essays

“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.”
― Alexander Pope, Moral Essays

“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, Moral Essays

“Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake”
― Alexander Pope, Moral Essays

“The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.”
― Alexander Pope, Moral Essays

“Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrows all her rays from sense.”
― Alexander Pope, Moral Essays

“Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”
― Alexander Pope, Moral Essays