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• I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

  Alexander Pope

  Believe, Forgiving, Vices

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.4

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• Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
  You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
  Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
  Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Play, Age

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.105

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• A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Deceit, Naked

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.135

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• A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

  Alexander Pope

  Husband, Women, Dragons

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “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”, p.314

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• Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Pain, Hate

  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.79

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• What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

  Alexander Pope

  War, Delight, Care

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• For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

  Alexander Pope

  Government, Fool, Form

  "The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope".

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• Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Angel, Pride

  Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Etc”, p.46

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• Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

  Alexander Pope

  Song, Snakes, Lasts

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 354

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• All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Eye, Yellow

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• Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Death, Losing Friends

  Letter to Jonathan Swift, 5 December 1732, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 3, p. 335

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• Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Gay, Joy

  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.59

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• The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Echoes, Sound, Seems

  An Essay on Criticism l. 362 (1711)

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• Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

  Alexander Pope

  Husband, Mistress, Barren

  Epistles to Several Persons "To a Lady" l. 71 (1735)

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• Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
  Man never Is, but always To be Blest.
  The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
  Rest and expatiates in a life to come.
  Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind
  Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
  His soul proud Science never taught to stray
  Far as the solar walk or milky way;
  Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n,
  Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Home, Simple

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

  Alexander Pope

  Book, Men, Clothes

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “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”, p.311

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• With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

  Alexander Pope

  Sight, Blue, Years

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.305

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• Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine,
  Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
  For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
  Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

  Alexander Pope

  Flower, Pride, Shining

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.5

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• Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
  Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
  Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
  Say, is not absence death to those who love?

  Alexander Pope

  Missing You, Summer, Goodbye

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.172

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• For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Fighting, Government

  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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• We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

  Alexander Pope

  Funny, Wise, Father

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.203

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• Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, May, Dine

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1853). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.83

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• Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

  Alexander Pope

  Time, Winter, Conquer

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.88

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• Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

  Alexander Pope

  Littles, Too Much, Faults

  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.355

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• Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

  Alexander Pope

  Short Love, Fire, Forbidden

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Sappho to Phaon. Eloisa to Abelard. The temple of fame. January and May. The wife of Bath. The first book of Statius's Thebais. The fable of Dryope. Vertumnus and Pomona. Imitations [of English poets] Miscellanies. Epitaphs”, p.44

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