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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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• This long disease, my life.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Science, Long

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

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• Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
  To err is human, to forgive, divine.

  Alexander Pope

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Divine

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.22

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• Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

  Alexander Pope

  Judging, Gold, And Love

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.442

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• There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Doing Nothing, Way

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

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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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• Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

  Alexander Pope

  Vices, Monsters, Needs

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 217

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• Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

  Alexander Pope

  Fire, Religion, Veils

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 649

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• Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Order, Judging

  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.126

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• What then remains, but well our power to use,
  And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose?
  And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail,
  When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Air, Use

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.124

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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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• 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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• 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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• Genius creates, and taste preserves.

  Alexander Pope

  Sublime, Intelligence, Genius

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• Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

  Alexander Pope

  Vices, Sometimes, Virtue

  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.135

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• These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Riches, Enjoy

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.1155, Delphi Classics

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• Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
  Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Life, Sexy

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.241

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• I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

  Alexander Pope

  Ambition, People, Emptiness

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.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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• Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

  Alexander Pope

  Thinking, Pieces

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 253

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• Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Law, Made

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.241

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• A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Price Tag, Theory

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• The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Literature, Conquer

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Bathurst" l. 155 (1733)

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• Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Nature, Conceited

  Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.44

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