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
wisdom opinion scales
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
winter shining frost
Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
war passion bears
Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
joy secret sake
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
fool zeal
The zeal of fools offends at any time.
toil lovers force
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
mother weed men
Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
ocean passion wind
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
men physicians companion
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
reality moments ability
Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
tree shade arise
Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
two four should
Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
men use geese
While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.
So perish all who do the like again.