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• Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Vanity, Understanding

  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.118

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• Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Eagles, Rome

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• But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Long, Age

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.316

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• For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Wife, Aids

  Alexander Pope (1848). “The Select Works of Alexander Pope: With the Life and Portrait of the Author”, p.54

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• Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Heart, Men

  1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.215-8.

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• I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

  Alexander Pope

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  Alexander Pope (1961). “Poems: Pastoral poetry, and An essay on criticism”

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• It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

  Alexander Pope

  Thinking, Young Friends, Young Love

  Alexander Pope (1735). “Letters of Alexander Pope and Several Eminent Persons from the Year 1705 to 1735”, p.74

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• To teach vain Wits that Science little known,
  T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Doubt, Littles

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Criticism”

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• At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Divine Justice, Ideas

  Alexander Pope, Rosemary Cowler (1986). “The prose works of Alexander Pope: The major works, 1725-1744”

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• Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Mean, Grace

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1 (1738) l. 103

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• Most authors steal their works, or buy.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Writing, Stealing

  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.87

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• Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

  Alexander Pope

  Care, Riches, Taste

  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.377

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• The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
  Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Garden, Bugs

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 217

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• The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

  Alexander Pope

  Knows, Seasons, Cease

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.353

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• Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

  Alexander Pope

  Age, Want, Gates

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.31

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• Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

  Alexander Pope

  War, Greek, Gold

  Alexander Pope (1787). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.166

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• It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

  Alexander Pope

  Sex, Women, Tragedy

  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.130

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• Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

  Alexander Pope

  Judgment, Wit, Critics

  Alexander Pope (1825). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.49

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• How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Sin, Offence

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1836). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq., to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.136

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• Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

  Alexander Pope

  Confused, Order, Confusion

  'Windsor Forest' (1711) l. 11

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• Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try,
  And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;
  But wives, a random choice, untried they take;
  They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;
  Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away,
  And all the woman glares in open day.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Horse, Men

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.87

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• Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Pain, Women

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

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• There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

  Alexander Pope

  Sex, Bed, Tables

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.90

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• Index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
  Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Science, Superficial Knowledge

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• But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

  Alexander Pope

  World, Want, Poverty

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope ... Collated with the best editions: by Thomas Park”, p.99

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