Alexander Pope

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• 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

• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

  Imitations of Horace (1733–1738), Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I, line 136.

  • Morality

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