Alexander Pope Quotes about Spring

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

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 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”

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

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

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