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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.

“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”

— Alexander Pope

Humor

All Quotes by Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

Education

“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”

— Alexander Pope

Wisdom

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

— Alexander Pope

Fear

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

— Alexander Pope

God

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

— Alexander Pope

Education

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

— Alexander Pope

Women

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

— Alexander Pope

Art

“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”

— Alexander Pope

Art

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

— Alexander Pope

Hope

“Health consists with temperance alone.”

— Alexander Pope

Alone

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

— Alexander Pope

God

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

— Alexander Pope

Nature

“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

“If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”

— Alexander Pope

Business

“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

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

— Alexander Pope

God

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

— Alexander Pope

Art

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

— Alexander Pope

Nature

“To err is human to forgive, divine.”

— Alexander Pope

Forgiveness

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

— Alexander Pope

Diet