Alexander Pope Quotes About Past
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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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.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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