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
anger angry faults others ourselves revenge
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves
hate faults hate-him
Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
faults literature absence
Never find fault with the absent.
faults overcoming advantage
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
faults blame fame
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
too-much faults littles
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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.
man plain reason
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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
dream english-poet men
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
hid laws lay nature newton
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
chaos curtain darkness dies dread great lets thy universal
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.