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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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. Go to Quote / Comment
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. Go to Quote / Comment
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Go to Quote / Comment
The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves. Go to Quote / Comment
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Go to Quote / Comment