Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.


An essay on man. In epistles to a friend [by A. Pope]. Epistle ii (ed. 1734)

Alexander Pope Quotes

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.