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

Alexander Pope

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.

Alexander Pope

Bible, War, Party

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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

Alexander Pope

Father, People, May

Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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

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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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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.

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Life, Two, Space

'Martinus Scriblerus...or The Art of Sinking in Poetry' ch. 11 (Miscellanies, 1727)

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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

Alexander Pope

Life, Eye, Tongue

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.23

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Alexander Pope

Being Strong, Exercise, Lazy

Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.263

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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

Alexander Pope

Music, Dance, Light

Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.292

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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Alexander Pope

God, Fall, Hero

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 87

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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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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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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Alexander Pope

Nature, Science, Night

"Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton" l. 1 (1730) See Squire 1

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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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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

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Heaven, Taught, Spires

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

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

Alexander Pope

Sound, Speech, Empty

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.356

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No craving void left aching in the soul.

Alexander Pope

Soul, Void, Craving

'Eloisa to Abelard' (1717) l. 91

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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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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Alexander Pope

Memories, Reflection, Remembrance

Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Man In Four Epistles: Epistle 1”

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

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Grace, Soldier, Triumph

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

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope

Nice, Stupid, Literature

Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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Gossip, Rumor, Enlargement

Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.130

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

Alexander Pope

Hair, Stones, Grapes

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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

Alexander Pope

Feelings, Kind, Fellow Feeling

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