What did Alexander Pope mean by: True self-love and social are the same. - Alexander Pope Poet · England Copy
+ Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others’ shades. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Shade, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Art, Dance, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Nature, Night, Science, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Where grows?–where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Agriculture, Soil, Toil, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Pride, Steps, Void, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ For I, who hold sage Homer’s rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Guests, Sage, Welcome, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Where beams of imagination play, the memory’s soft figures melt away. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Alexander Pope, Memories, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Dog, Loyalty, Silly, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England