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

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Sunshine, Obscurity

  "Eloisa to Abelard" l. 207 (1717)

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

  Alexander Pope

  Stupid, Fool, Knows

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

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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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• Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Lasts, Firsts

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.89

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• So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Science, Genius

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1854). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life”, p.5

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• Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Dance, Moving

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.78

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• A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Religion, Finals

  Alexander Pope (1999). “The Dunciad: In Four Books”, Longman Publishing Group

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• Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

  Alexander Pope

  Doctors, Doubt, Like You

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Bathurst' (1733) l. 1

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• Wit is the lowest form of humor.

  Alexander Pope

  Humor, Literature, Form

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• But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Destiny, Blind

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.126

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• Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Wind, Clouds

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 99

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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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• 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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• Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheism, Looks, Privacy

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 331

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• 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, Evil, Erring

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

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• Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

  Alexander Pope

  Thanksgiving, Littles, Patient

  Alexander Pope, “Imitations Of Horace: The First Epistle Of The Second Book”

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• Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Flames, Hands

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 653

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• What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Causes, Trivial Things

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1

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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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• 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.

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

  Alexander Pope

  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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