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
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
english-poet last lay nor rule whom
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
foreign grave hands humble strangers thy
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
book creatures heaven hides page present state
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state
believes judgment-and-judges judgments
It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
charms merit soul strike wins
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul
harmony nature partial spite thou truth universal unknown whatever
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right
fool fools-and-foolishness knows learned nature
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more
angels english-poet fear fools rush
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
god christian adversity
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.