Alexander Pope Quotes About Heaven
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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