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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

Alexander Pope

Kings, Enemy, Tools

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.131

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I lose my patience, and I own it too,
When works are censur'd, not as bad but new;
While if our Elders break all reason's laws,
These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Alexander Pope

Law, Criticism, Demand

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.129

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No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Alexander Pope

Smart, Littles, Fool

'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735) l. 83.

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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

Alexander Pope

Ears, Hell, Courtesy

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 149

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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender or too firm a heart,
To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky
For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

Alexander Pope

Life, Heart, Thinking

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

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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

Alexander Pope

Hair, Stones, Grapes

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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Alexander Pope

Grace, Soldier, Triumph

Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

Alexander Pope

Ambition, Lost, Crosses

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
Man, but for that no action could attend,
And, but for this, were active to no end:
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,
Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

Alexander Pope

Spring, Men, Self

Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

Alexander Pope

Wise, Fate, Law

Alexander Pope (1776). “An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory”, p.21

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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Alexander Pope

Fighting, Life Is, Form

Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.67

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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Alexander Pope

Men, Goal, Wheels

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.20

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No more was seen the human form divine.

Alexander Pope

Divine, Form, Humans

Alexander Pope (1796). “The Beauties of Pope, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages: Selected from the Works of that Admired Author : as Well as from His Translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, &c”, p.83

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Alexander Pope

Nature, Men, Use

Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.74

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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Alexander Pope

Life, Heart, Sheep

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.21

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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

Alexander Pope

Book, Principles, Courtesy

"The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author".

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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

Alexander Pope

Heaven, Taught, Spires

Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.243

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

Life, Lying, Venus

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.180

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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Alexander Pope

Men, Advice, Proud

Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

Alexander Pope

Life, Grace, Zeal

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.244

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Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

Alexander Pope

Life, Affliction, Taught

Alexander Pope, “Eloisa To Abelard”

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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Alexander Pope

Hands, Play, Blood

Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.4

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Alexander Pope

Life, Death, Fancy

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1786). “An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.101

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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

Alexander Pope

Life, Sight, Swim

Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.275

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Order is heaven's first law.

Alexander Pope

Happiness, Math, Order

1733 An Essay on Man, epistle to 4, l.49.

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