This is a paraphrase of Alexander Pope's sentence from An Essay on Man (1733): "Hope springs perennial in the human breast." It has been used as an epigraph to many books and articles. Alexander Pope developed this phrase while working as an editor for the English poet Samuel Johnson. In that role, he edited Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755-1765). The book was enormously successful and is considered one of the founding works of modern English literature. Pope borrowed the line from a Latin poem by Lucretius called "De Rerum Natura" ("On the Nature of Things"). It is often referred to by its first two lines: "Omnes animi fortuna locuta est / Vota currus, ventus, sol, laxis ruber idem / Mens agitur et manet atque volat." which means "The fates have decided about everything for the fortune of all men. The ship and the wind, the sun and the rain, the black land and the red sea are one thing to the adventurer and another to the dweller by homely firesides."