Alexander Pope Quotes About Spring

Quotes about: Spring

• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Spring, Learning

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

• Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
  Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
  Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
  Say, is not absence death to those who love?

  Alexander Pope

  Missing You, Summer, Goodbye

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.172

• Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

  Alexander Pope

  Hope, Spring, Men

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)

• Hope springs eternal.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)

• Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Judging, Deeds

• Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
  Man never Is, but always To be Blest.
  The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
  Rest and expatiates in a life to come.
  Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind
  Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
  His soul proud Science never taught to stray
  Far as the solar walk or milky way;
  Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n,
  Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Home, Simple

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

• What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Causes, Trivial Things

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1

• See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs,
  And mounts exulting on triumphant wings;
  Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,
  Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Blood, Wings

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.33

• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Men, Self

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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