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
education exercise mind
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
mind mental-illness finest
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
convince-us water mind
The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
mind-blowing huge
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
being-strong exercise mind
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
birthday grateful mind
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
philosophy men mind
T is true,t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.
wise doubt mind
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
education mind common
Education forms the common mind.
two mind taste
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
mind padlocks talent
Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
envy brave mind
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
love sunshine mind
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
draw peculiar plan
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.