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Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope (1688–1744) was an English poet and satirist best known for his sharp wit and mastery of the heroic couplet. Works like *The Rape of the Lock* and *An Essay on Man* established him as the foremost poet of the early 18th century. Many of his lines — such as "To err is human, to forgive divine" — have become proverbial.

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“Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.”

— Alexander Pope

Women

All Quotes by Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

Hope

“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”

— Alexander Pope

Alone

“The most positive men are the most credulous.”

— Alexander Pope

Men

“Health consists with temperance alone.”

— Alexander Pope

Alone

“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.”

— Alexander Pope

Best

“Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”

— Alexander Pope

Nature

“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”

— Alexander Pope

Education

“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

— Alexander Pope

Fear

“To err is human to forgive, divine.”

— Alexander Pope

Forgiveness

“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.”

— Alexander Pope

God

“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”

— Alexander Pope

Change

“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”

— Alexander Pope

Business

“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”

— Alexander Pope

Humor

“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

— Alexander Pope

Art

“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”

— Alexander Pope

God

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”

— Alexander Pope

Marriage

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.”

— Alexander Pope

Art

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

— Alexander Pope

Fear

“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

— Alexander Pope

Best

“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”

— Alexander Pope

God