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
cat college inheritance
But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
book fate heaven
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
loneliness devil adam
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
friendship men flow
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
friendship merit praise
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
hero dying
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
men firsts reason
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
education mind common
Education forms the common mind.
brother
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
men thinking honor
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
honesty truth care
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
heart want prudent
"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.
pain rose dies
Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
wings light paper
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!