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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 modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.”

— Alexander Pope

Faith

All Quotes by Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

God

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

— Alexander Pope

Art

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

— Alexander Pope

God

“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

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

— Alexander Pope

Truth

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

— Alexander Pope

Education

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

— Alexander Pope

God

“Woman's at best a contradiction still.”

— Alexander Pope

Best

“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

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

— Alexander Pope

Women

“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

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

— Alexander Pope

Art

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

— Alexander Pope

Fear

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

— Alexander Pope

Best

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

— Alexander Pope

Alone

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

— Alexander Pope

Fear

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

— Alexander Pope

Future

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

— Alexander Pope

Diet

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

— Alexander Pope

God

“Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.”

— Alexander Pope

Nature