To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism

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Mistakes Forgiveness

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

An Essay on Criticism

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1711 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Poet Writer

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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, l. 526.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, I. 526.

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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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Mostly Harmless

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Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

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Hume, David, [published anonymously]. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: John Noon, 1739, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.

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