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• Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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  Spring, Judging, Deeds

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• Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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  Nature, Children, Science

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.403

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• Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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  Father, Dark, Men

  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.389

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• The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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  Education, Wisdom, Stupid People

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 612

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• No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

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  Dog, Husband, Loss

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.76, Routledge

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• Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

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  Men, Degrees, Virtue

  Alexander Pope (1848). ““The” Select Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With the Life and Portrait of the Author”, p.194

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• Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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  Envy, Shade, Merit

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Mankind is unamendable.

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  Mankind

  Alexander Pope (1776). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.198

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• Every woman is at heart a rake.

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  Heart, Rakes, Intrigue

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

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• The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

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  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Alexander Pope (2008). “An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires: Easyread Large Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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  Men, Stupidity, Criticism

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 390

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• Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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  Envy, Shadow, Substance

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.154, Delphi Classics

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• Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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  Food, Wine, Lovers

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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• Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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  Light, Sea, Sky

  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.35

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• For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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  Reading, Eye, Stuff

  Alexander Pope (1728). “The Dunciad”, p.9

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• Dogs, ye have had your day!

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  Dog, Time, Calendars

  Homerus, Alexander Pope (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”

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• Most women have no characters at all.

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  Women, Anger, Character

  1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.2.

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• I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

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  Giving, Charity, Littles

  "The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Imitations of Horace".

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• Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

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  Home, Charity, Fool

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1859). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life”, p.212

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• Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

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  Nurse, Solitude

  Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.295

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• Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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  Religion, Gardening, Genius

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 57

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• Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

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  Friendship, Dear Friend, Absent

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.156

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• Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

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  Birthday, Graduation, Education

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

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• The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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  Running, Mad, Insanity

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 6 (1738) l. 27

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• The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

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  Lying, Dull, Cunning

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: 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.254

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