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 taught affliction
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
heaven taught spires
Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
thinking too-much taught
With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.
wisdom men taught
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
curse law-and-lawyers love
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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
college die endow
Die and endow a college or a cat.
excuse worse
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
dear gold grow rust
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:It is the rust we value, not the gold.
dear gold grow rust
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold.
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.