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
wise fate law
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
book fate men
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
fate humans left
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
fate destiny blind
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
fate religion literature
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
book fate heaven
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
struggle fall fate
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
fate astrology
Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
fate men submit
Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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.