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• For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

  Alexander Pope

  Sage, Guests, Welcome

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159 ('speed the parting guest' in Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725-6) bk. 15, l. 84)

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• A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

  Alexander Pope

  Perfect, Judging, Literature

  Alexander Pope (1764). “An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. The second edition, corrected. By Joseph Warton”, p.111

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• What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

  Alexander Pope

  Country, Military, Causes

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• Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

  Alexander Pope

  Alps, Hills, Arise

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 232

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• Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

  Alexander Pope

  Reality, Moments, Ability

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• The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Differences, Vices

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.87

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• Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Strong, Men, Growth

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.205

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• Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

  Alexander Pope

  Future, Circles, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1820). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which are Added the Universal Prayer, Messiah, and Elegy”, p.7

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• Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Social, God And Nature

  1733 An Essay on Man, epistle 3, l.317-18.

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• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Men, Psychology

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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• Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

  Alexander Pope

  War, Fighting, Might

  Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.259

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• The proper study of Mankind is Man.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Occupy Yourself, Literature

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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• The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

  Alexander Pope

  Success, Race, Vaunt

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.276

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• Ladies, like variegated tulips, show
  'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Half, Charm

  Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.217

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• Interspersed in lawn and opening glades,
  Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

  Alexander Pope

  Tree, Shade, Arise

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.151

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• Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

  Alexander Pope

  Teenage, Teenage Love, Crime

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 6

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• Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Mankind, Unwilling

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.57

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• The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

  Alexander Pope

  Home, Soul, Veronica Mars

  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.32

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• No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

  Alexander Pope

  Air, Wings, Larks

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore”, p.94

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• Education forms the common mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Mind, Common

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

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• In death a hero, as in life a friend!

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Hero, Funeral

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.321

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• Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

  Alexander Pope

  Hope, Quitting, Dies

  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.39

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• Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Astrology

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.250

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• Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Tree, Liberty

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.40

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• Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

  Alexander Pope

  Medicine, Fields, Beast

  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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