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• Now hollow fires burn out to black,
  And lights are fluttering low:
  Square your shoulders, lift your pack
  And leave your friends and go.
  O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
  Look not to left nor right:
  In all the endless road you tread
  There's nothing but the night.

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Night, Fire

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• All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

  Alexander Pope

  Rain, Flower, Sky

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

  Alexander Pope

  Believe, Watches, Judgment

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Criticism”

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• No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Hate, Men

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• Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

  Alexander Pope

  Judging, Gold, And Love

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.442

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Money, Drinking

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• Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

  Alexander Pope

  Blessed, Men, Expect Nothing

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.367

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• We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

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  Money, People, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.236

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• Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

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  Feelings, Religion, Principles

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• They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

  Alexander Pope

  Funny, Marriage, Dream

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.284

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• Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

  Alexander Pope

  Thinking, Vices, Strange

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• A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

  Alexander Pope

  Family, Commonwealth

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton”, p.417

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• As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

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  People, Bottles, Pouring

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• Truth needs not flowers of speech.

  Alexander Pope

  Truth, Flower, Needs

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• Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

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  Mean, Simplicity, Ostentation

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.105, Routledge

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• An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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  Honesty, Motivation, Lying

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works”, p.393

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• Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

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  Reality, Growth, Finding Yourself

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• Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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  Attitude, Blessed, Oppressed

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• All other goods by fortune's hand are given,
  A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

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  Marriage, Hands, Wife

  "The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope".

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• Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

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  Morning, Night, Thinking

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 430

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• What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

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  Passion, Reason, Undone

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.222

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• What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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  Food, Health, Anxiety

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• The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

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  Love, Sunshine, Remembrance

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.164

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• Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
  To err is human, to forgive, divine.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Divine

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.22

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• Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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  Vices, Sometimes, 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.135

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