Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Popewas an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1688
happiness loss ordinary
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
forgiveness forgiving divine
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
birthday grateful mind
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
art science light
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
beauty men hair
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.
time winter conquer
Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
sleep giving painful
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
fall pride errors
Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
knowledge bliss virtue
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
life states middle
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
life law made
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
life lying mercury
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
life sea matter
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
life moments creatures
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.