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Alexander Pope

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.


— Alexander Pope


#glasses #greatest #his #look #magnifying

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.


— Alexander Pope


#fool #happy #knows #learned #more

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.


— Alexander Pope


#forgot #world

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.


— Alexander Pope


#courtship #dream #wake #wedlock

All nature is but art unknown to thee.


— Alexander Pope


#nature #thee #unknown

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.


— Alexander Pope


#dunces #wit #wits

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.


— Alexander Pope


#been #contains #left #like #object

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.


— Alexander Pope


#reputation #word

Wit is the lowest form of humor.


— Alexander Pope


#form #lowest #lowest form #wit

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!


— Alexander Pope


#brain #chain #chambers #countless #hidden






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He then went to two Catholic schools in London. Dunciad and Moral Essays

Though the Dunciad was first publiAlexander Poped anonymously in Dublin its authorship was not in doubt. He also made friends with Whig writers Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare and Tennyson.

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