All ALEXANDER POPE Quotes about “Giving”

“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.”
“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.”
“Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.”
“The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.”
“True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.”
“While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.”
“The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.”
“Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.”
“The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.”
“The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.”
“Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.”
“What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.”
“What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?”
“Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.”
“Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!”
“Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.”
“We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.”

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