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Alexander Pope Quotes

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

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Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
English Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 21, 1688
Date of Death:
May 30, 1744
Nationality:
English
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Related Authors:
John Keats
Alfred Lord Tennyson
William Wordsworth
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
W. H. Auden
John Milton
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Select Alexander Pope Quotations:
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Alexander Pope

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope

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

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope


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