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
friendship trust knowledge
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
friendship true-friend law
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
friendship virtue
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
friendship dear-friend absent
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
friendship soul faithful
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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.
death losing-friends lost-friendship
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
friendship philosopher guides
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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.