“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”

— Alexander Pope, "The Universal Prayer" (1738)

About Alexander Pope

1688 – 1744

English poet, author of "An Essay on Criticism" and "The Rape of the Lock".

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”

“Years following years steal something ev'ry day. At last they steal us from ourselves away.”

“Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”