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
life god nature
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
god men psychology
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
god angel pride
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
god wind clouds
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
writing goddess
And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
god wind clouds
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
god wise men
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
god lows bounds
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
self social god-and-nature
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
god christian adversity
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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.