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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.

“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”

— Alexander Pope

God

All Quotes by Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

Art

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

— Alexander Pope

Education

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

— Alexander Pope

Nature

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

— Alexander Pope

Art

“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.”

— Alexander Pope

Men

“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”

— Alexander Pope

Art

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

— Alexander Pope

Nature

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

— Alexander Pope

Education

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

— Alexander Pope

Hope

“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.”

— Alexander Pope

Love

“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.”

— Alexander Pope

God

“Woman's at best a contradiction still.”

— 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

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

— Alexander Pope

Truth

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

— Alexander Pope

Future

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

— Alexander Pope

Fear

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

— Alexander Pope

Fear

“I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

— Alexander Pope

Best

“Health consists with temperance alone.”

— Alexander Pope

Alone

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

— Alexander Pope

Women