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Alexander Pope (May 22, 1688 May 30, 1744) is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Pope, Alexander.
"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."
Pope, Alexander on Devil
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"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
Pope, Alexander on Education
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"Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?"
Pope, Alexander on Exaggeration
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"An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded."
Pope, Alexander on Excuses
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"Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly."
Pope, Alexander on Eyes
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"I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers."
Pope, Alexander on Faith
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"What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death."
Pope, Alexander on Fame
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"The worst of madmen is a saint run mad."
Pope, Alexander on Fanatics and Fanaticism
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"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so."
Pope, Alexander on Fathers and Sons
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"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread."
Pope, Alexander on Fools and Foolishness
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"To err is human, to forgive is divine."
Pope, Alexander on Forgiveness
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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
Pope, Alexander on Forgiveness
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"Men would be angels, angels would be gods."
Pope, Alexander on Ambition
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"At every word a reputation dies."
Pope, Alexander on Gossip
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"And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too."
Pope, Alexander on Gossip
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"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."
Pope, Alexander on Government
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"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."
Pope, Alexander on Happiness
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"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."
Pope, Alexander on Hatred
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"Health consists with temperance alone."
Pope, Alexander on Health
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"An honest man's the noblest work of God."
Pope, Alexander on Honesty
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"Act well your part; there all honor lies."
Pope, Alexander on Honor
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"Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot."
Pope, Alexander on Inertia
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"Die and endow a college or a cat."
Pope, Alexander on Inheritance
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"For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad."
Pope, Alexander on Insanity
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"You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home."
Pope, Alexander on Inspiration
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"It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own."
Pope, Alexander on Judgment and Judges
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"Curse on all laws, but those that love has made."
Pope, Alexander on Law and Lawyers
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"True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit."
Pope, Alexander on Argument
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