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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.

“For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.”

— Alexander Pope

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All Quotes by Alexander Pope

“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

“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

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

— Alexander Pope

Hope

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”

— Alexander Pope

Art

“To err is human to forgive, divine.”

— Alexander Pope

Forgiveness

“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”

— Alexander Pope

Future

“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

— Alexander Pope

Art

“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”

— Alexander Pope

Art

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

— Alexander Pope

Art

“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.”

— Alexander Pope

Men

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

— Alexander Pope

Alone

“Health consists with temperance alone.”

— Alexander Pope

Alone

“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”

— Alexander Pope

Education

“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”

— Alexander Pope

Intelligence

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

— Alexander Pope

God

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

— Alexander Pope

Women

“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.”

— Alexander Pope

Truth

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”

— Alexander Pope

Diet

“The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”

— Alexander Pope

Nature

“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.”

— Alexander Pope

Hope