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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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. Go to Quote / Comment
At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Go to Quote / Comment
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? Go to Quote / Comment
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Go to Quote / Comment
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Go to Quote / Comment