Alexander Pope — English Poet born on May 21, 1688, died on May 30, 1744

Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare... (wikipedia)

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.