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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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Quote Left But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate. Quote Right
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Quote Left All nature is but art unknown to thee. Quote Right
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Quote Left Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. Quote Right
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Quote Left To err is human to forgive, divine. Quote Right
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Quote Left Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs