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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

Alexander Pope

Giving, Alive, Charity

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.159

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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Alexander Pope

Happiness, Laughter, Men

'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700, when aged about twelve)

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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

Alexander Pope

Change, Past, Path

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Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Alexander Pope

Men, Proud, Be Proud

'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 208

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

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Lying, Unseen, Obscurity

'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700)

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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Alexander Pope

Art, Soul, Slides

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 65

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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

Alexander Pope

Father, Grief, Joy

Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.159

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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

Alexander Pope

Son, Feet, Paper

1742 The Dunciad, bk.4, l.127-30.

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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

Alexander Pope

Wings, Hawks, Dove

Alexander Pope (1840). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author ...”, p.249

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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Alexander Pope

Art, Jewels, Grace

An Essay on Criticism l. 297 (1711)

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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

Alexander Pope

Future, Tyrants, Hell

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.313

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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

Alexander Pope

Thinking, Sky, Dies

'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 9

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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

Alexander Pope

Science, Trying, Firsts

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “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 by William Roscoe, Esq”, p.340

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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

Alexander Pope

Pants, Glory, Breaths

Alexander Pope (1808). “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.274

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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

Alexander Pope

Men, Heaven, Weakness

Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.21

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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

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Lasts, Next, Fool

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 36

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There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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Stars, War, Fall

Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three 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 : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.244

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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

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Wise, Kings, Character

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.232

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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.

Alexander Pope

Nature, Atoms, Next

Alexander Pope (1828). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke. With Notes Illustrative of the Grammatical Construction, Designed as a Text-book for Parsing”, p.26

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

Alexander Pope

Nature, Eye, Angel

An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 237 (1733)

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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

Alexander Pope

Believe, Noise, Abundance

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.9

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

Alexander Pope

Sides, Moderation, States

Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.129

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Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)

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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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Book, Fate, Men

Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.356, Delphi Classics

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

Alexander Pope

Writing, Men, Scribbles

'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 187

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Born: May 21, 1688
Died: May 30, 1744
Occupation: Poet
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