Alexander Pope Heart Quotations

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

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!

Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

Every woman is at heart a rake.

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.