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~ Alexander Pope Quotes ~
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Alexander Pope Quotes


An eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. 
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) 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.

Here are some famous quotes by Alexander Pope.




An excuse is a lie guarded.

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Order is Heaven's first law.

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?

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To err is human; to forgive divine.

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Hunger is insolent and will be fed.

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All gardening is landscape painting.

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What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

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He that would pun would pick a pocket.

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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Strength of mind is exercise not rest.

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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One truth is clear Whatever is is right.

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The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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The world forgetting by the world forgot.