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• Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

  Alexander Pope

  Sculpture, Grew, Marble

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1853). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.62

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• Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

  Alexander Pope

  Dark, Thinking, Calm

  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.215

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• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Nice, Often Is

  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.122

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• The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

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  Smart, Heart, Men

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.80

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• A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Army

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.829, Delphi Classics

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• Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

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  Garden, Genius, Paint

  Alexander Pope, “Epistles To Several Persons: Epistle Iv, To Richard Boyle,”

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• Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

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  Wise, Coffee, Eye

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. From the text of dr. Warburton. With the life of the author [by T. Cibber].”, p.92

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• The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

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  Bible, War, Party

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• Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

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  Vices, Dignity, Virtue

  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.339

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• How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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  Happiness, Sunshine, Obscurity

  "Eloisa to Abelard" l. 207 (1717)

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• Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

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  Pride, Void, Steps

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.259

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• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

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  Ocean, Passion, Wind

  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.69

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• All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

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  Alexander Pope (1748). “An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With the commentary and notes of mr. Warburton”, p.126

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• Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

  Alexander Pope

  Sad, Hate, Women

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.15

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• A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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  Friendship, Resentment, Cold

  Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.191, Lulu.com

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• If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

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  Dresses, Different, Wonder

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.20

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• Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

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  Errors, Judging, World

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 15 (1733)

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• The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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  Long, Wife, Ease

  "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 131 (1735)

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• And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

  Alexander Pope

  Play, Water, Sound

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore”, p.316

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• Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

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  Zephyr, Breathe, Train

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.38, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have more zeal than wit.

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  Wit, Zeal

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.443

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• Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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  Men, Want, He Man

  An Essay on Man Epistle 4, l. 203 (1734)

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• Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, He Man, Lost

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

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• Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

  Alexander Pope

  Hair, Devil, Amber

  'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735) l. 169

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• The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

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  Stupid, Fool, Knows

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 263

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