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• Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

  Alexander Pope

  Blood, Hands, Justice

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.6

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• For he lives twice who can at once employ,
  The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Past, Time Management

  "The Poems of Alexander Pope". Book edited by John Butt, sixth edition, p. 117, 1970.

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• Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Thinking, Honor

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

  Alexander Pope

  People, Kind, Virtue

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• Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

  Alexander Pope

  Dying, Famous Last Words, Hundred

  To George, Lord Lyttelton, 15 May 1744, in Joseph Spence 'Anecdotes' (ed. J. Osborn, 1966) no. 637

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• Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Rocks, Sculpture

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.78

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• You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

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  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  Alexander Pope, Homer, Samuel Johnson (1830). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.177

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• Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;
  Learn from the beasts the physic of the field;
  The arts of building from the bee receive;
  Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Art, Yield

  Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.70

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• Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
  A being darkly wise and rudely great...
  He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;
  In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;
  In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
  Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Fear, Doubt

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.18

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• Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

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  Atheist, Children, Dark

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.119

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• Of little use, the man you may suppose,
  Who says in verse what others say in prose;
  Yet let me show a poet's of some weight,
  And (though no soldier) useful to the state,
  What will a child learn sooner than a song?
  What better teach a foreigner the tongue?
  What's long or short, each accent where to place
  And speak in public with some sort of grace?

  Alexander Pope

  Song, Children, Men

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.156

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• Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
  Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore;
  What future bliss He gives not thee to know,
  But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

  Alexander Pope

  Hope, Teacher, Blessing

  Alexander Pope (1764). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.12

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• Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Faithful, Soul

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Mr. Addison' (1720) l. 67

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• But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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  Cat, College, Inheritance

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Bathurst' (1733) l. 97

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• How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Vegetarianism, Curiosity

  Alexander Pope (1854). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.46

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• Virtue alone is happiness below.

  Alexander Pope

  Virtue

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.147

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• Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

  Alexander Pope

  Past, Errors, Needs

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1757). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.148

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• To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

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  Suffering, Fool, Pardon

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.228

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• In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
  From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Healing, Dew

  Alexander Pope (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.17

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• The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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  Years, Years Ago, Thousand

  Alexander Pope (1872). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and explanatory notes. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke”, p.171

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• Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Nature, Genius

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1787). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.265

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• Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

  Alexander Pope

  Years, Funeral, Age

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.168

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• Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Pride, Errors

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.41, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

  Alexander Pope

  Hands, Grace, Masters

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,”, p.71

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• First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
  By her just standard, which is still the same:
  Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
  One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
  Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
  At once the source, and end, and test of art.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Change, Art

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 68

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