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Alexander Pope1688–1744

Alexander Pope on hope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be bless’d

An Essay on Man (1733–1734), Epistle I

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How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
Eloisa to Abelard (1717), Line 207.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context
- Forgiveness
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift (14 December 1725)
- Friendship

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