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
inspirational education time
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
inspirational funny life
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
inspirational motivational inspiring
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
inspirational forgiveness letting-go
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
inspirational lying character
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
inspirational inspiring simplicity
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
inspirational dance moving
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
spring famous-inspirational eternal
Hope springs eternal.
inspirational art yield
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
inspirational honesty long
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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.