Alexander Pope Quotes About Inspirational

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  • To err is human; to forgive, divine.

    An Essay on Criticism l. 525 (1711). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Although known in Latin (humanum est errare, it is human to err) and in earlier English versions, this saying is generally quoted in Pope's words." The ODP cites "To offend is humaine, to repent diuine" (Henry Wotton, 1578) and "To erre is humane, to repent is divine" (James Howell, 1659).
  • On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

    Alexander Pope (1825). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.198
  • Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

    Alexander Pope (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.411
  • Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

    Alexander Pope (1776). “Works”, p.128
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.70
  • Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

    Alexander Pope (1823). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems”, p.33
  • Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

    Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.78
  • Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.

    Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Criticism”
  • Hope springs eternal.

    An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)
  • There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

    Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.64
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