A Lumberhouse of books in ev'ry head, For ever reading, nev… - Alexander Pope

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A Lumberhouse of books in ev'ry head,
For ever reading, never to be read.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was a poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet, he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry.

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Alternative Names: Pope the Poet • Alexander I Pope • Alexander, I Pope

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Good nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense!
If once right reason drives that cloud away,
Truth breaks upon us with resistless day;
Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe.

Teach me to feel another’s woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

(from The Universal Prayer)

A Lumberhouse of books in ev'ry head, For ever reading, never to be read. - Alexander Pope

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