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Alexander Pope quotes

1688–1744 · English poet

Pope wrote in rhyming couplets so neat that dozens of them became proverbs — people quote him daily without knowing it.

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4 quotes traced to Alexander Pope's own work or a reliable witness.

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To err is human, to forgive divine.
Source: An Essay on Criticism (1711)
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A little learning is a dang'rous thing.
Source: An Essay on Criticism (1711)
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Source: An Essay on Criticism (1711)
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Source: An Essay on Man, Epistle I (1733)