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
madmen run saint self worst zeal
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
self giving advice
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
self order judging
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
self heaven silence
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
acceptance self two
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
self years hours
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
self heaven stealing
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
self self-love social
True self-love and social are the same.
spring men self
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
self easy manners
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
self social god-and-nature
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
birthday count grateful
PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
few vicious virtue virtuous
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
bent common education forms inclined tis twig
Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined