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• Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Men, Taught

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 574

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• Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

  Alexander Pope

  Brother, Made, Plague

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.375

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• A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

  Alexander Pope

  Philosophy, Men, Practice

  Alexander Pope (1956). “The Correspondence”

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• Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
  Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

  Alexander Pope

  Sleep, Race, Two

  Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.346, Lulu.com

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• He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

  Alexander Pope

  Painting, Paint, Feels

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson, Gilbert Wakefield (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.115

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• That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Stars, Evil

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Flower, Eye

  'Pastorals' (1709) 'Summer' l. 73

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• Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit,
  There is no cure 'gainst age but it

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Wine, Age

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• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Alexander Pope (1825). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.198

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• Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

  Alexander Pope

  Powerful, Learning, Science

  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.118

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• Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Men, Flow

  Alexander Pope (1847). “Poetical Works”, p.299

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• Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Firsts, Reason

  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.24

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• All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Eye, Yellow

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• A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

  Alexander Pope

  Truth, Honesty, Care

  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.120

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• It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

  Alexander Pope

  Overcoming, Faults, Advantage

  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.378

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• For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Poetry, Pardon, Burned

  Alexander Pope (1961). “The Poems”

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• A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political 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, Men, Names

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• There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Men, Littles

  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.125

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• Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Fame, Deathbed

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• How index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Eels, Library

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.247

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• The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

  Alexander Pope

  Government, Order, Pieces

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes”, p.227

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• The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

  Alexander Pope

  Vanity, Rivers, Life Is Like

  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.123

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• 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Eye, Joints

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.101

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• Health consists with temperance alone.

  Alexander Pope

  Health, Temperance

  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.128

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• All nature is but art unknown to thee.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Nature, Literature

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

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