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Alexander Pope was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope is famous for his use of the heroic couplet.. English poet


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Quote Left So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Quote Right
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Quote Left Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd Quote Right
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Quote Left Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,... Quote Right
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