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
ambition chiefs lost
But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
laughter ambition son
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
ocean ambition hands
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
leadership ambition sea
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
angel ambition men
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
life kings ambition
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
angel ambition firsts
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
ambition people emptiness
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
draw peculiar plan
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
last lay
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
blessed expects man ninth shall
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude
fault hide mercy teach
Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
english-poet fault hide mercy others teach
Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me.
censure ten writers-and-writing writes
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.